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Tue 7 Mar 2017

Inspired

Posted by PJ under inspiration, knowledge, quote of the day, that which abides
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“Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge; it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.”

—Sri Aurobindo, Thoughts and Aphorisms

 

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Wed 4 Jan 2017

Knowing

Posted by PJ under death, knowledge, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“I’m not afraid of annihilation. I’m not afraid of death. But I just want to know more…before I go.”

—Maurice Sendak, The Paris Review, December 27, 2011

 

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Mon 18 Apr 2016

Sparks

Posted by PJ under knowledge, liminality, quote of the day, science
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Random quote of the day:

“Each generation see[s]…sparks which we ignore just because they don’t fit into our picture of science or knowledge.”

—Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Paris Review, Fall 1968, No. 44

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Thu 16 Jul 2015

Sparks

Posted by PJ under knowledge, quote of the day, science
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Random quote of the day:

“In each generation we see sparks which we ignore just because they don’t fit into our picture of science or knowledge.”

—Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Paris Review, Fall 1968, No. 44

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Fri 29 May 2015

Mysterioso

Posted by PJ under knowledge, mysteries, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The real trick is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery.”

—Fred Alan Wolf, Foreword, Do You Quantum Think? by Dianne Collins

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Fri 13 Mar 2015

Honestly

Posted by PJ under knowledge, quote of the day, truth
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Random quote of the day:

“But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, ‘We do not know.’”

—Robert G. Ingersoll, “Superstition”

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Wed 4 Mar 2015

Tin hat certainty

Posted by PJ under belief, certainty, knowledge, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Tain’t what a man don’t know that hurts him; it’s what he knows that just ain’t so.”

—Kin Hubbard, Abe Martin of Brown County

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Thu 23 Oct 2014

Turning back

Posted by PJ under knowledge, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Modern intelligence is in utter confusion. Knowledge has become so diffuse that the world and the mind have lost all point of reference. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism. But the most amazing things are the admonitions to ‘turn backward.’ Return to the Middle Ages, to primitive mentality, to the soil, to religion, to the arsenal of worn-out solutions. To grant a shadow of efficacy to those panaceas, we should have to act as if our acquired knowledge had ceased to exist, as if we had learned nothing, and pretend in short to erase what is inerasable.”

—Albert Camus, The Notebooks, 1942-1951 (tr. Justin O’Brien)

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Thu 9 Oct 2014

Ratio of reason

Posted by PJ under belief, knowledge, quote of the day, reason
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Random quote of the day:

“Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.”

—William Blake, There Is No Natural Religion

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Wed 10 Sep 2014

If this be error and upon me proved

Posted by PJ under knowledge, quote of the day, science, unknown
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Random quote of the day:

“A great deal more is known than has been proved.”

—Richard Feynman, quoted in The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy

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