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“Yet we must know, if only in order to learn not to known. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere. That is, how to live dynamically, from the great Source, and not statically, like machines driven by ideas and principles from the head, or automatically from one fixed desire. At last, knowledge must be put into its true place in the living activity of man. And we must know deeply, in order to do that.”
― Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious
― Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious
“You only keep a watch on those who cause you suffering. If you want to remain unknown to the world, all that's needed is not to hurt anyone.”
― Maxims and Reflections
― Maxims and Reflections
“Not the perception of the proportion of things outside of us but the experience of identification with whatever's outside of us (this is obviously a physical impossibility ; that's why it's a mental responsibility).”
― A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings
― A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings
“But one truth does not displace another. Even apparently contradictory truths do not displace one another. Logic is far too coarse to make the subtle distinctions life demands.”
― Selected Essays
― Selected Essays
“Every inventor, every man of originality has been religious and even fanatically so. Perverted by irreligious skepticism, the human mind is like waste land that produces nothing or is covered with weeds useless to man. At such a time even its natural fertility is an evil, for these weeds harden the soil by tangling and intertwining their roots and moreover create a barrier between the sky and the earth. Break up these accursed clods; destroy these fatally hardy weeds; call on every human aid; drive in the plow; dig deep to bring into contact the powers of the earth and the powers of the sky.
Here, gentlemen, is the natural analogy to human intelligence opened or closed to divine knowledge.
The natural sciences themselves are subject to the general law. Genius does not rely much on the slow crawl of logic. Its gait is free, its manner derives from inspiration; one can see its success, but no one has seen its progress....”
― St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence
Here, gentlemen, is the natural analogy to human intelligence opened or closed to divine knowledge.
The natural sciences themselves are subject to the general law. Genius does not rely much on the slow crawl of logic. Its gait is free, its manner derives from inspiration; one can see its success, but no one has seen its progress....”
― St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence
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