"Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet."
-Huston Smith
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"Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.“
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"Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere."
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"Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it."
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"Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us."
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"It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations."
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"Religion is the call to confront reality to master the self."
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"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."
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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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