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“Whatever you have learned, Harry, you must remember That there is always more: we cannot rest in being The impatient spectators of malice or stupidity. We must try to penetrate the other private worlds Of make-believe and fear. To rest in our own suffering Is evasion of suffering. We must learn to suffer more.”

Action Suffering Work Knowledge Insight Futility Inadequacy

Book:The Family Reunion

Source: The Family Reunion

“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”

Wisdom Knowledge Information

Book:The Rock

Source: The Rock

“All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. Where is the life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”

Wisdom Spirit Knowledge Ignorance T S Eliot

Book:The Waste Land and Other Poems

Source: The Waste Land and Other Poems

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