The insatiable quest for knowledge is far greater than the quest for worker health and safety.
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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
Quote:- The internet has done a tremendous job in making information readily available for all to see.
Author:- Jay D'Cee
Category:- inspiration,motivational,hope,time
Quote:- The internet itself led him from one word to the next, giving links, pointing out. When it didn’t know something it tactfully kept quiet or stubbornly showed him the same pages, ad nauseam. Then Kunicki had the impression that he had just landed at the border of the known world, at the wall, at the membrane of the heavenly firmament. There wasn’t any way to break through it with his head and look through. The internet is a fraud. It promises so much—that it will execute your every command, that it will find you what you’re looking for; execution, fulfillment, reward. But in essence that promise is a kind of bait, because you immediately fall into a trance, into hypnosis. The paths quickly diverge, double and multiply, and you go down them, still chasing an aim that will now get blurry and undergo some transformations. You lose the ground beneath your feet, the place where you started from just gets forgotten, and your aim finally vanishes from sight, disappears in the passage of more and more pages, businesses that always promise more than they can give, shamelessly pretending that under the flat plane of the screen there is some cosmos. But nothing could be more deceptive, dear Kunicki. What are you, Kunicki, looking for? What are you aiming at? You feel like spreading out your arms and plunging into it, into that abyss, but there is nothing more deceptive: the landscape turns out to be a wallpaper, you can’t go any farther.
Flights
Author:- Olga Tokarczuk
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The introduction of your true self is a recipe of importance; you never know who will love your ingredients.
Author:- Jesus Apolinaris
Category:- Love
Quote:- The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.
Author:- Delos Banning McKown
Category:- science
Quote:- The invitation for each of us is to dive into the mystery of our questions and our wondering, and come out of the trance of certainty, the idea that we’re supposed to know what to do with this life or have some absolute conclusion or resolution about the many paradoxes and contradictions of our existence. Invite you to soften into your doubts, celebrate your uncertainty, and come to see the beauty - and ultimate safety - in Not Knowing. We know not where the journey leads, nor whether a final destination is even a meaningful concept. The attraction is the inherent thrill of participating in a grand creative endeavor for which participation is its own reward.
NON - DUALITY: THE PARTICIPATORY UNIVERSE
Author:- alexis karpouzos
Category:- Love
Quote:- The iron lady took you on a wild ride Filled with courage, ambition, and passion Her inner compass served as her guideSo being classy became a timeless fashionThe Iron Lady is dedicated to the 50,000 Bosniak women that were raped during the Bosnian Genocide. A special thank you to Bosnian activists Nusreta Sivac and Bakira Hasečić for inspiring me to be a fierce feminist.
On The Edge of Town
Author:- Aida Mandic
Category:- motivational,inspiration
Quote:- The irony of being a good person is that you understand a bad person very well.
Author:- Pradip Bendkule
Category:- Life
Quote:- The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.
The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It
Author:- Kelly McGonigal
Category:- science
Quote:- The Islamic intellectual tradition has usually not seen a dichotomy between intellect and intuition but has created a hierarchy of knowledge and methods of attaining knowledge according to which degrees of both intellection and intuition become harmonized in an order encompassing all the means available to man to know, from sensual knowledge an reason to intellection and inner version or the "knowledge of the heart.
Islamic Philosophy from its Origin to the Present: Philosophy in the Land of Prophecy
Author:- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The isolated man does not develop any intellectual power. It is necessary for him to be immersed in an environment of other men, whose techniques he absorbs during the first twenty years of his life. He may then perhaps do a little research of his own and make a very few discoveries which are passed on to other men. From this point of view the search for new techniques must be regarded as carried out by the human community as a whole, rather than by individuals.
Author:- Alan Turing
Category:- science
Quote:- The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don't matter. Ability doesn't matter. Need is the only thing that matters.
Stone Arabia
Author:- Dana Spiotta
Category:- motivational
Quote:- The issue of fortuitous encounters brings us to an interesting double standard here. We may recoil in horror at the thought of haphazard chance determining our future life partner, but label that chance `destiny` and we’re entranced by the prospect. On one hand we feel the need to be in control of our romantic choices; on the other hand the thought of losing control can be hugely seductive.
How to Choose a Partner
Author:- Susan Quilliam
Category:- Relationships