"Our knowledge will take its revenge on..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.
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“Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself.”
“One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one.”
“My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.”
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“I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.”
“Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!”
“He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.”
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“To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.”
“It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.”
“Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.”