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Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even the most simple, is always a minor miracle, since it can never be fully explained by the material instruments that we apply to it. In every truth there is something more than we would have expected, in the love that we receive there is always an element that surprises us.


Pope Benedict XVI


#learning #love #spirit #surprise #truth

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?


Maurice Ravel


#creativity #humor #self-knowledge #humor

The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now being taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying "When the sage points to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.


Anthony de Mello


#doctrine #unknowing #love

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.


Jerry Seinfeld


#am #anything #busy #cuts #doing

They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.


Joseph Conrad


#identity #knowledge #business

The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.


Ted Rall


#apartment #bar #being #best #cartoonist

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.


Ambrose Bierce


#austere #disfavor #gambling #known #looks

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.


George Burns


#busy #country #cutting #driving #hair

I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.


Erik Larson


#chicago #change

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.


Harper Lee


#anyway #before #begin #know #licked






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