"Mood Swings 'ᏰέƦẙḽԃṏሁ's the most "unappreciated"poet on this site.Being "misunderstood"is what gets him into a fight.Now that I'm retired and free,He's the new "King"of HP ~Now I hate that Jew because he's better and right."
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"I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge."
"Knowledge & understanding mixed with ones convictions of 'experience' is hardly impositional". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]"
"But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both come to the same conclusions but they don't have quite the same point of view."
"When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge."
"In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls. (pg. 181, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community)"
"She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth."
"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people."
"The Universe Begins and Ends in Us If a telescope could see beyond the edges of the universe,we would see ourselves looking into a telescope trying to see beyond the edges of universe."
"Total knowledge is annihilation Of the desire to see, to touch, to feel The world sensed only through senses And immune to the knowledge without feeling."
"Leaps of Faith [10w] Like religion, leaps of faith are behind all idealistic movements."
"We must not allow our pride to be the motivation behind our apologetics; rather, philoverity, the love of truth must be the full and complete motivation. For pride corrupts truth."
"All children are atheists, they have no idea of God."
"Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks."
"It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to."
"I carry a shower curtain folded up neatly in my wallet, because you never know when you’ll never know."
"I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship."
"Self-Help I asked the bookseller,'Do you have any self-help books for addiction?'He said,'If I tell you, I'd be enabling you."
"Wisdom is the daughter of experience"
"So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way--we caught it like germs."