"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."

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"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."

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"I am reading Henry James, and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Knowledge, Reading, Books, Mind, Solitude

"To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Knowledge, Error

"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Knowledge, Justice, Independence, Tradition

"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Knowledge, Experience, Reality, Truth, Wisdom

"In worthy teaching, all things are related."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Knowledge, Teaching, Understanding, Life, Unity

"The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Knowledge, Results, Study, Universe

"That which cures all worldly miseries, is called 'Scientific' Knowledge."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Knowledge, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know.The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Knowledge, Ignorance, Fall, Innocence

"I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

Knowledge, Forget

"It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Knowledge, Answers, Truth, Desire

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"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."

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"Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe."

Religion

"I think childhood is to everyone a lost land."

Childhood

"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."

Act

"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."

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"As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism."

Criticism

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"I am reading Henry James, and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber."

"To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away."

"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it."

"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery."

"In worthy teaching, all things are related."

"The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow."

"That which cures all worldly miseries, is called 'Scientific' Knowledge."

"Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know.The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge."

"I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget."

"It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know."

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"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."

"Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe."

"I think childhood is to everyone a lost land."

"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."

"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."

"Television's Mr. Filth: that's me."

"I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it."

"Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word."

"As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism."

"I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself."