#knowledge

Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time, in an infinity of matter, and an infinity of space a bubble-organism emerges while will exist for a little time and then burst, and that bubble am I. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#knowledge #life #philosophy #life

...I like stories very much,” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#stories #understanding #understanding-oneself #love

Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#dance #epistemology #knowledge #love #poetry

In wishing to know ourselves fully, we must forget our quest for gain and seek only completion. At a certain point in our development, we no longer even seek to become Mystic, Magister, Sorcerer, or Witch: we seek only our own perfection in the wholeness of our Will, in the joining of light with dark and strength with love. We are varied and gorgeous yet pure of heart. Our aim is this: to know ourselves and to know the world. ↗

— T. Thorn Coyle

#self-knowledge #spiritual-growth #love

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know. ↗

— Rollo May

#love

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bandwagon #compassion #culture #fads #flattery

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#knowledge #learning #love

Conquer anger by love, evil by good; conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#knowledge #love #truth #wisdom #anger

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#knowledge #thich-nhat-hanh #understanding #buddhism

Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their appearance of nobility, of transcendent virtue, but detailed, passionate, trivial human knowledge. ↗

— Graham Greene

#nobility