#434
The Furrow (1986)
Source: Autobiography of a Yogi (1946), Ch. 34 : Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), I : The Man of Flesh and Bone
Context: If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man. The cultivation of any branch of science — of chemistry, of physics, of geometry, of philology — may be a work of differentiated specialization, and even so, only within very narrow limits and restrictions; but philosophy, like poetry, is a work of integration and synthesis, or else it is merely pseudo-philosophical erudition.
“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.”
Demonology
1880s, Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1883)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 37.
“The sleep of a wise man is far better than the worship of an ignorant one during the night.”
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 419.
Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, Religious
Declaration about the scholars of England, particularly those of Oxford
The Ash Wednesday Supper (1584)
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius; translation from C. D. Yonge (trans.), The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (London: H. G. Bohn, 1853), p. 196.
Said "when a man preserved a strict silence during the whole of a banquet".
