#knowledge

It's never been more important for borrowers to arm themselves with knowledge and build sound financial-management skills. ↗

— Robert Manning

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Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang; Ye were not made to live like unto brutes But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#excellence #humanity #knowledge #life #virtue

In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific knowledge, on the other hand, can often stay abstract and theoretical. Thus most of today’s physicists do not seem to realize the philosophical, cultural and spiritual implications of their theories. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#knowledge #meaning-of-life #philosophy-of-science #life

After we eat of the Apple of Knowledge, however, all of us start to be aware of ourselves, and our consciousness starts to be divided from our being. We start to have an image of ourselves which blocks our true expression. How do we go from there? There are two ways of dealing with this situation. The first is to find a self-image one is comfortable with. This is what most people do. It has some advantages since it causes the mind to operate reasonably undisturbed and it brings some peace to most people. People who find and maintain a self-image they are comfortable with are generally known as ‘happy people’. It doesn’t mean a whole lot, because in fact this image they are comfortable with is completely fake. There is another road, the road of learning to get rid of all self-imagery. This is a hard road however and requires one to pretty much battle for the rest of ones life (which isn’t a bad thing at all since the sense and meaning of life are essentially to put up a good battle). One develops techniques to stop identifying with ones self-image. The more these mechanisms behind self-imagery are mastered the more easy it becomes to switch and correct ones identities. At some point we can simply get rid of the self-image and be reborn as the child we once were, but a different child who has the triumph of knowledge in his pocket. ↗

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

#tree-of-knowledge #life

It is important never to separate love and knowledge, compassion and wisdom. A wisdom without compassion is closed upon itself and does not bear fruit. A compassion without wisdom is a madness and a cause of suffering. ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#knowledge #love #suffering #wisdom #love

Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#knowledge #learning #education

The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this! ↗

— Jacques Lacan

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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended. ↗

— Lactantius

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Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#einstein #few #knowledge #now #philosophers

The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#becoming #christian #done #faith #gladly