#led

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#knowledge #problems #information

At first sign of crisis, the ignorant don’t panic because they don’t know what’s going on, and then later they panic precisely because they don’t know what’s going on.
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— Jarod Kintz

#ignorance #ignorant #information #knowledge #panic

Nothing good was learnt too swiftly. Knowledge should be a purposeful accumulance of observed experience, applied and tested to the full. ↗

— Jane Borodale

#science #experience

Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please tell me I'm not the only one who believes this. Please. As a culture, we think we're well educated, but I'm not sure that what we've learned necessarily helps us survive. ↗

— Joel Salatin

#education #farms #food #knowledge #education

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 can't imagine what you must think of me...And I don't expect you've forgiven me. Still, selfishly I have to ask you - are you glad I made you get out of the car? Was I right right? Was everything you felt for me on account of my manipulation? If so, please know I am deeply sorry. that I will NEVER bother you again - I swear you'll never have cause to fear me. But if I was wrong. If you still care for me - meet me? Paceo de colon, San Sebastia tower eight o' clock tonight -c ↗

— C.J. Roberts

#imagination

I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake ↗

— James M. Cain

#love #noir #love

...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