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Quote by Jean-Francois Lyotard
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indis

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine. – Jean-Francois Lyotard

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What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it. – Jean-Francois Lyotard

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Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age. – Jean-Francois Lyotard

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The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany. – Klaus Fuchs

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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Oftentimes the supposed increasers of knowledge have only given a new name, and a worse, to what every body knew before. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom. – Jeremy Collier

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