Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion.
Anthony MarraTag: wisdom time aging time-passing youth-is-wasted-on-the-young
You can label jam, you can't label man
Benny BellamacinaTag: wisdom philosophy humour mankind quote witty-quotes
The important thing to remember is not to forget
Benny BellamacinaTag: wisdom life philosophy relationships wit famous-quotes witty-quotes
Knowledge is Power, Power provides Information; Information leads to Education, Education breeds Wisdom; Wisdom is Liberation. People are not liberated because of lack of knowledge.
Israelmore AyivorTag: wisdom education knowledge power people ignorance liberation information liberated educated lack-of-knowledge ignorant-people information-is-liberation knowledge-is-power knowledge-is-the-key people-perish wisdom-is-liberation
Next time I will ..."
"From now on I will ..."
- What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?
Tag: wisdom today tomorrow question
...in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom lies through excess" (p. 113)
Jack KerouacTag: wisdom excess drunkenness
A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that.
Steven EriksonTag: wisdom intelligence knowledge inspiration society malazan steven-erikson malazan-book-of-the-fallen deadhouse-gates
For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable. Then, 2,500 years ago, there was a glorious awakening in Ionia: on Samos and the other nearby Greek colonies that grew up among the islands and inlets of the busy eastern Aegean Sea. Suddenly there were people who believed that everything was made of atoms; that human beings and other animals had sprung from simpler forms; that diseases were not caused by demons or the gods; that the Earth was only a planet going around the Sun. And that the stars were very far away.
Carl SaganTag: wisdom truth reality knowledge learning greece enlightenment ionia
The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.
SocratesTag: wisdom truth knowledge greece prophecy
It was a night of early spring,
The winter-sleep was scarcely broken;
Around us shadows and the wind
Listened for what was never spoken.
Though half a score of years are gone,
Spring comes as sharply now as then—
But if we had it all to do
It would be done the same again.
It was a spring that never came;
But we have lived enough to know
That what we never have, remains;
It is the things we have that go.
Tag: wisdom spring materialism regret project-gutenburg
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