Quote by Arthur Machen
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and fi

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery. – Arthur Machen

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Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science. – Arthur Machen

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It is all nonsense, to be sure and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams – not by any means of all dreams – moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis. – Arthur Machen

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If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress. – Arthur Machen

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. – Aldous Huxley

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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. – Thomas Carlyle

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Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. – Huston Smith

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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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