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"The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recognition."

"To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem."

"Anyone with half a mind could see that,"said Tiffany.Miss Tick sighed. "Yes. But sometimes it's so hard to find half a mind when you need one."

"...I like stories very much,” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better."

"A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and gains (but only if he's lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at least. Either way (this was Jumpy's point) it's the Devil who wins."

"I will tell you why I became a philosopher. I became a philosopher because I wanted to be able to talk about many, many things, ideally with knowledge, but sometimes not quite the amount of knowledge that I would need if I were to be a specialist in them. It allows you to be many different things. And plurality and complexity are very, very important to me."

"Not all those who wander are lost."

"Democracy, Really [10w] A democracy is free to replace one tyranny with another."

"Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank."

"So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way--we caught it like germs."

"The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight."

"Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since."

"Knowledge is knowing the depth of the ocean. Wisdom is knowing till where to swim."

"Would you like to know your future?If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise."

"Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself."

"The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought."

"Switch Hitter [10w] Aphorisms are penned in my left brain,poetry, my right."

"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."

"The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is."

"Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!"