"You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up."

Knowledge, Understanding, Truth, Wisdom, Philosophy

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"You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up."

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"The truth is that few know the truth."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"I know a lot of stuff, not only about you, about me (of course) and many other people.... "So how I don't know??" you ask yourself??You never asked me and even you asked me you never understood me. You just said "Okay"... and that's all."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"You have this and this, soon it will come and this and you are still at this level of knowledge... so poor for you!"

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"If I know the end of a book or a film I want to know why it happen..."

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"The amount of books or films or series which are you going to watch doesn't matter as far as long you understand all of them and keep track of all them."

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"Books can kill you, while you are reading."

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"Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge."

Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher

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"There is a huge difference between thinking we know something and actually knowing something."

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

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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

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"My favorite words in the world are these: in conjunction.They question curiosities in simple form and function. is a query of broadest scope. is wonder that fuels all hope.Together they lasso the mind like rope, and spur the wildest deductions!"

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