"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."
-Walter Benjamin
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"Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death."
-Walter Benjamin
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"Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred."
-Walter Benjamin
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"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."
-Walter Benjamin
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"It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed."
-Walter Benjamin
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"The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing."
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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
-Isaac Asimov
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"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."
-Plato
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"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."
-H. L. Mencken
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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."
-Nicolaus Copernicus
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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."
-Jose Marti
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