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Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. - S

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. – Simone Weil

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A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. – Simone Weil

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We can only know one thing about God – that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. – Simone Weil

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. – Ralph Cudworth

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. – Laurence Sterne

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