#knowledge

"How to Treat Your Lover {Couplet} If you want to learn how your lover best to treat,Pretend each time is the last time you'll ever meet."

"There was, I found, always more to learn."

"Atheism [10w] Atheism is the tragic triumph of cold contemptuousness over gratitude."

"Obscenity [10w] Obscenity's undefinable becauseeverything that occurs in nature is natural."

"Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge."

"Time [10w] {Couplet} Can there be more callous crimethan unkindly killing time?"

"Love in the Afterlife [10w] Maybe I'll love you in the afterlife.This life, fuhgeddaboudit."

"There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception."

"No-brainers [10w] No-brainers are challenging enough for people with no fucking brains."

"O God O God I love you.I worship you, I need you.Everything I am is because of you.Everything.O God I hate you."

"I see at last that all the knowledgeI wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me—Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darknessAnd we call it wisdom. It is pain."

"Hypocrisy [10w] Religion without hypocrisy doesn't exist;that's man's imperfection, not God's."

"Knowledge that is acquiredis not like this. Those who have it worry ifaudiences like it or not.It's a bait for popularity.Disputational knowing wants customers.It has no soul...The only real customer is God.Chew quietlyyour sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stayplayfully childish."

"Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you."

"Mind Maneuvers When we hear something unflattering,our mind doesn't fully process it.When we hear a compliment,the mind goes into overdriveand tend to read too much into it."

"Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value."

"The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way."

"Nomad {Couplet} When your roots grow from the outside in,home becomes whatever place you're in."

"Hell is truth known too late."

"The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book."(Introductory lecture as professor of Latin at University College, London, 3 October 1892)"