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“There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.”

“Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.”

Knows Men Knowledge All Things Ultimate Boundaries Humankind

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.”

Knows Life Giving Children Knowledge Kissing Laughter All Things This Life

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man.”

Men Humans Philosophy Character Use Humanity Three Natural Differences Knowledge Divine All Things Arise Contemplation Inquiry Penetrate Power Of God Natural Philosophy

Book:Philosophical works

Source: Philosophical works

“Ignorance makes for weakness and fear; knowledge gives strength and confidence. Nothing surprises an intellect that knows all things with a sense of discrimination.”

Knows Giving Fear Knowledge Ignorance Weakness All Things Surprise Intellect Discrimination Weakness And Fear

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“To know all things is not permitted.”

Knows Knowledge All Things

Author:Horace

“Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.”

Knows May Ideas Soul Knowledge All Things Originals God Knows Original Ideas

Author:Meister Eckhart

“All things I thought I knew; but now confess The more I know, I know, I know the less.”

Knows Knowledge All Things

Author:John Owen

“What must be the knowledge of Him, from whom all created minds have derived both their power of knowledge, and the innumerable objects of their knowledge! What must be the wisdom of Him, from whom all things derive their wisdom!”

Mind Knowledge Objects All Things Power Of Knowledge

Author:Timothy Dwight IV

“All things are made of atoms - little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you will see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied.”

“Learn the leading precognita of all things-no need to turn over leaf by leaf, but grasp the trunk hard and you will shake all the branches. Advice cherished by Samuel Johnson that that, if one is to master any subject, one must first discover its general principles.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Hard Turns Principles Knowledge Advice Subjects Masters All Things Branches Shakes Over It Leafs Johnson Trunks

Author:Samuel Johnson

“The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.”

Knows Humans Ends Science Causes Secret Knowledge All Things Accounts Foundation Bounds Empires

Author:Francis Bacon

“To this day, we see all around us the Promethean drive to omnipotence through technology and to omniscience through science. The effecting of all things possible and the knowledge of all causes are the respective primary imperatives of technology and of science. But the motivating imperative of society continues to be the very different one of its physical and spiritual survival. It is now far less obvious than it was in Francis Bacon's world how to bring the three imperatives into harmony, and how to bring all three together to bear on problems where they superpose.”

Source: The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays