"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other."
-Eric Hoffer
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"We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.“
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"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
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"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."
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"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
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"Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity."
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