Life has obliged him to remember so

“Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will – are all gone.”

— Albert J. Nock

Author: Albert J. Nock
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Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything

“Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.”

— Karl Jaspers

Author: Karl Jaspers
Category: knowledge
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