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Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.
Sep 14, 2025
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.
The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God.
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.
If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
When in doubt tell the truth.
The authority of science promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies. Cartesian epistemology and classical ideals produced forms of rationality, scientificity and objectivity that, though efficacious in the quest for truth and knowledge, prohibited the intelligibility and legitimacy of black equality. In fact, to "think" such an idea was to be deemed irrational, barbaric or mad.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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