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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.108
“Cherish the past for what it was, an ideal, a signal that human happiness might be a possibility”
Master and God
Context: He was dead. No point speculating. Cherish the past for what it was, an ideal, a signal that human happiness might be a possibility. Raise your standards. Make a decent life, Lucilla. Life is all there is. If it's only once, it must be good... He had been right. If perfection only happened once, that was better than never. Now nothing for her would ever again entail complete despair. So thank you, Gaius Vinius Clodianus, son of Marcus, thank you for your good deed, a deed that brightened somebody's dark world.
What is Knowledge? (1971)
Ibid., p. 328
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Não há felicidade senão com conhecimento. Mas o conhecimento da felicidade é infeliz; porque conhecer-se feliz é conhecer-se passando pela felicidade, e tendo, logo já, que deixá-la atrás. Saber é matar, na felicidade como em tudo. Não saber, porém, é não existir.
“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
Article on Biography.
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
Variant: For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.
“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.”
Remark, attributed in John Gordon Stewart Drysdale and John James Drysdale, The Protoplasmic Theory of Life (1874), p. 279 (note).
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“A knowledge of Bach is the beginning of musical wisdom.”
Page 47 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA47.
Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Polyphonic Music; Sebastian Bach (Ch. III)