All Quotes By Tag: Knowledge
“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.”
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“You need mountains, long staircases don’t make good hikers.”
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“Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.”
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“I drink cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself.”
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“Fake is the new real,You gotta keep a lot a shit to yourself.”
“The only value of wasted time is knowledge.”
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“The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.”
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“When God takes out the trash, don’t go digging back through it. Trust Him.”
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“O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the earth and rode through forests, and certain things looked so challenging and promising and nostalgic: a star in the evening, a blue harebell, a reed-green pond, the eye of a person or a cow. And sometimes it seemed that something never seen yet long desired was about to happen, that a veil would drop from it all, but then it passed, nothing happened, the riddle remained unsolved, the secret spell unbroken, and in the end one grew old and looked cunning . . . or wise . . . and still one knew nothing perhaps, was still waiting and listening.”
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“Happiness will grow if you plant the seeds of love in the garden of hope with compassion and care.”
“You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
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“Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child’s relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don’t know as much as we think we know.”
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“My heart knows what my mind only think it knows.”
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“An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best very occasional) knowledge , purify itself of errors, and progress in general enlightenment. That would be a crime against human nature, the proper destination of which lies precisely in this progress and the descendants would be fully justified in rejecting those decrees as having been made in an unwarranted and malicious manner.The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.”
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“The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called “model agnosticism” and holds that any grid we use to organize our experience of the world is a model of the world and should not be confused with the world itself. Alfred Korzybski, the semanticist, tried to popularize this outside physics with the slogan, “The map is not the territory.” Alan Watts, a talented exegete of Oriental philosophy, restated it more vividly as “The menu is not the meal.”
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