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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is t

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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It is only a mans own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone elses meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. – Bertrand Russell

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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nations leading causes of preventable death, but its less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires. – Ed Markey

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I think its a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same. – Jimmy Wales

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Do you remember when you found out you wouldnt live forever? People dont talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because youre not born with that knowledge. – David Cronenberg

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Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas. – José Marti, letter, 1890

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