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"If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom."
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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."
"Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously."
"Some persons can't accept the truth, due to their inability to let go of their own perceptions."
"When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'."
"Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, and doing as you say you would do."
"Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied."
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"All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible."
"God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man."
"If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom."
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