“To study the art of living is to engage in one of its forms.”
Alexander Nehamas (1946) Professor of philosophy
Source: The Art of Living (1998), p. 15.
“It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed to study the two items separately. Similarly, we can not separate life from living matter, in order to study only living matter and its reactions. Inevitably, studying living matter and its reactions, we study life itself”
Mi è impossibile cingere i fianchi di una ragazza con il mio braccio destro e serrare il suo sorriso nella mia mano sinistra, per poi tentare di studiare i due oggetti separatamente. Allo stesso modo, non ci è possibile separare la vita dalla materia vivente, allo scopo di studiare la sola materia vivente e le sue reazioni. Inevitabilmente, studiando la materia vivente e le sue reazioni, studiamo la vita stessa.
The Nature of Life, Academic press, 1948.
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Liu Shaoqi (1898–1969) 2nd President of the People's Republic of China (1898-1969)
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Das Wesen der Materie [The Nature of Matter], a 1944 speech in Florence, Italy, Archiv zur Geschichte der Max‑ Planck‑ Gesellschaft, Abt. Va, Rep. 11 Planck, Nr. 1797; the German original is as quoted in The Spontaneous Healing of Belief https://archive.org/stream/GreggBradenTheSpontaneousHealingOfBelief/Gregg%20Braden/Gregg%20Braden%20-%20The%20Spontaneous%20Healing%20Of%20Belief#page/n1 (2008) by Gregg Braden, p. 212; Braden mistranslates intelligenten Geist as "intelligent Mind", which is an obvious tautology.
“Life-as-it-could-be is a territory we can only study by first creating it.”
Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
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“When study becomes labor, we had better change the subject-matter as quickly as possible.”
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 35
“Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is.”
G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, composer and writer
All and Everything: Views from the Real World (1973)
Context: Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to "learn." What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying "Know thyself."
“The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.”
William Beebe (1877–1962) American ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, and explorer
As quoted in On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz (1963)
