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Quote:- The infinity of potential knowledge may be infinitely greater than the infinity of my actual knowledge.
The Last Answer
Author:- Isaac Asimov
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The influence that Marxism has achieved, far from being the result or proof of its scientific character, is almost entirely due to its prophetic, fantastic, and irrational elements. Marxism is a doctrine of blind confidence that a paradise of universal satisfaction is awaiting us just round the corner. Almost all the prophecies of Marx and his followers have already proved to be false, but this does not disturb the spiritual certainty of the faithful, any more than it did in the case of chiliastic sects: for it is a certainty not based on any empirical premises or supposed 'historical laws', but simply on the psychological need for certainty. In this sense Marxism performs the function of a religion, and its efficacy is of a religious character. But it is a caricature and a bogus form of religion, since it presents its temporal eschatology as a scientific system, which religious mythologies do not purport to be.
Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown
Author:- Leszek Kołakowski
Category:- science
Quote:- The information contained in an English sentence or computer software does not derive from the chemistry of the ink or the physics of magnetism, but from a source extrinsic to physics and chemistry altogether. Indeed, in both cases, the message transcends the properties of the medium. The information in DNA also transcends the properties of its material medium.
Darwinism, Design and Public Education
Author:- Stephen C. Meyer
Category:- science
Quote:- The information. It's out there, Rebbe. This part is not a sin.
Kaddish.com
Author:- Nathan Englander
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The inkstand is full of ink, and the paper lies white and unspotted, in the round of light thrown by a candle. Puffs of darkness sweep into the corners, and keep rolling through the room behind his chair. The air is silver and pearl, for the night is liquid with moonlight.See how the roof glitters, like ice!Over there, a slice of yellow cuts into the silver-blue, and beside it stand two geraniums, purple because the light is silver-blue, to-night.
Selected Poems of Amy Lowell
Author:- Amy Lowell
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world.
Author:- Ted Hughes
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The innate human desire to seek more or better means we never have everything we want. The irony is that one of the best ways to show we deserve what we want is to cherish and be grateful for what we have.
Author:- Tunde Salami
Category:- best
Quote:- The inner craving of success will help you achieve your goals and rise above all...
Author:- RJ Yolande Mendes
Category:- motivational,inspiration,Life
Quote:- The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.
Author:- Edith Södergran
Category:- philosophy,inspiration
Quote:- The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.
Dharma Punx: A Memoir
Author:- Noah Levine
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The Innocent child Inside you are Always the Best Part of Your Life.
Author:- Pradip Bendkule
Category:- best
Quote:- The insatiable quest for knowledge is far greater than the quest for worker health and safety.
Author:- Steven Magee
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- THE INSTRUCTION OF PTAHHOTEPEpiloguePart IIThe fool who does not hear,He can do nothing at all;He sees knowledge in ignorance,Usefulness in harmfulness.He does all that one detests And is blamed for it each day; He lives on that by which one dies. His food is distortion of speech. His sort is known to the officials, Who say: "A living death each day. One passes over his doings,Because of his many daily troubles. A son who hears is a follower of Horus, It goes well with him when he has heard. When he is old has reached veneration. He will speak likewise to his children, Renewing the teaching of his father. Every man teaches as he acts, He will speak to the children,So that they will speak to their children: Set an example, don’t give offense,If justice stands firm your children will live.As to the first who gets into trouble, When they see (it) people will say:That is just like him. And will say to what they hear: "That’s just like him too. To see everyone is to satisfy the many,Riches are useless without them. Don’t take a word and then bring it back,Don’t put one thing in place of another. Beware of loosening the cords in you,Lest a wise man say: Listen, if you want to endure in the mouth of the hearers. Speak after you have mastered the craft! If you speak to good purpose. All your affairs will be in place. Conceal your heart, control your mouth. Then you will be known among the officials; Be quite exact before your lord. Act so that one will say to him: "He’s the son of that one. And those who hear it will say: Blessed is he to whom he was born! Be deliberate when you speak, So as to say things that count; Then the officials who listen will say: How good is what comes from his mouth! Act so that your lord will say of you: How good is he whom his father taught; When he came forth from his body. He told him all that was in (his) mind, And he does even more than he was told, Lo, the good son, the gift of god, Exceeds what is told him by his lord,He will do right when his heart is straight. As you succeed me, sound in your body. The king content with all that was done. May you obtain (many) years of life! Not small is what I did on earth, I had one hundred and ten years of life As gift of the king,Honors exceeding those of the ancestors,By doing justice for the king.Until the state of veneration!
Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
Author:- Miriam Lichtheim
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- THE INSTRUCTION OF PTAHHOTEPInstruction of the Mayor of the city, the Vizier Ptahhotep, under the Majesty of King Isesi, who lives for all eternity. The mayor of the city, the vizier Ptahhotep, said: O king, my lord! Age is here, old age arrived. Feebleness came, weakness grows, Childtike one sleeps all day. Eyes are dim, ears deaf. Strength is waning through weariness, The mouth, silenced, speaks not, The heart, void, recalls not the past, The bones ache throughout. Good has become evil, all taste is gone, What age does to people is evil in everything. The nose, clogged, breathes not, Painful are standing and sitting. May this servant be ordered to make a staff of old age,So as to teil him the words of those who heard,The ways of the ancestors, Who have listened to the gods. May such be done for you. So that strife may be banned from the people, And the Two Shores may serve you! Said the majesty of this god: Instruct him then in the sayings of the past, May he become a model for the children of the great, May obedience enter him, And the devotion of him who speaks to him, No one is born wise.Beginning of the formulations of excellent discourse spoken by the Prince, Count, God's Father, God's beloved, Eldest Son of the King, of his body, Mayor of the city and Vizier, Ptahhotep, in instructing the ignorant in knowledge and in the standard of excellent discourse, as profit for him who will hear, as woe to him who would neglect them. He spoke to his son: Don’t be proud of your knowledge. Consult the ignorant and the wise; The limits of art are not reached, No artist’s skills are perfect; Good speech is more hidden than greenstone, Yet may be found among maids at the grindstones. If you meet a disputant in action,A powerful man, superior to you. Fold your arms, bend your back, To flout him will not make him agree with you. Make little of the evil speech By not opposing him while he's in action; He will be called an ignoramus, Your self-control will match his pile (of words).If you meet a disputant in action Who is your equal, on your level, You will make your worth exceed his by silence, While he is speaking evilly, There will be much talk by the hearers. Your name will be good in the mind of the magistrates. If you meet a disputant in action, A poor man, not your equal. Do not attack him because he is weak, Let him alone, he will confute himself. Do not answer him to relieve your heart, Do not vent yourself against your opponent, Wretched is he who injures a poor man, One will wish to do what you desire. You will beat him through the magistrates’ reproof. If you are a man who leads, Who controls the affairs of the many, Seek out every beneficent deed,That your conduct may be blameless.Great is justice, lasting in effect,Unchallenged since the time of Osiris. One punishes the transgressor of laws, Though the greedy overlooks this; Baseness may seize riches, Yet crime never lands its wares; In the end it is justice that lasts, Man says: It is my father's ground.Do not scheme against people,God punishes accordingly:If a man says: I shall live by it, He will lack bread for his mouth. If a man says: I shall be rich' He will have to say: My cleverness has snared me. If he says: I will snare for myself, He will be unable to say: I snared for my profit.If a man says: "I will rob someone, He will end being given to a stranger. People’s schemes do not prevail, God’s command is what prevails; Live then in the midst of peace, What they give comes by itself.
Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
Author:- Miriam Lichtheim
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning.
Parerga and Paralipomena
Author:- Arthur Schopenhauer
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The intense activity for body is yoga. Intense activity for internal organs is fasting.Intense, life-infusing for your mind is sincerity.
Author:- Paramahamsa Nithyananda
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- the intensityin your eyesburns my penas i write.
A touch, a tear, a tempest
Author:- Sanober Khan
Category:- Love,poetry
Quote:- The intention to right a wrong carries substantial weight. What you did may not have been necessarily wrong, however, with time and a different understanding, you may see that it would have been better to do things differently. It’s called growth.
Love's Longing
Author:- Donna Goddard
Category:- Relationships