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“What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.”

Knows Knowledge Objects Eternal Capable Eternity Observation Unqualified

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.”

Needs Reason Facts Form Faith Easy Knowledge Objects Involved Pure Eternal Historical Indifferent Absurdity Historical Knowledge

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.”

Knowledge Truth Is Eternal

Book:An Acceptable Time

Source: An Acceptable Time

“To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.”

Wisdom Knowledge Eternal Intellectual Rational Apprehension Temporal Things

Author:Saint Augustine

“In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.”

Way Knowledge Civilization Eternal Eternity Pavement New Knowledge

Author:Willis R. Whitney

“I hold all knowledge that is concerned with things that actually exist - all that is commonly called Science - to be of very slight value compared to the knowledge which, like philosophy and mathematics, is concerned with ideal and eternal objects, and is freed from this miserable world which God has made.”

World Made Philosophy Values Knowledge Objects Eternal Concerned Ideals Mathematics Miserable

Book:Autobiography

Source: Autobiography

“Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know - even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction - than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.”