Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972) writer and salonist
In "Gods", ADAM International Review, No. 299 (1962)
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Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor
David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
Zisi (-481–-402 BC) Chinese philosopher
Opening lines, p. 104
Variant translations:
What is God-given is called nature; to follow nature is called Tao (the Way); to cultivate the Way is called culture.
As translated by Lin Yutang in The Importance of Living (1937), p. 143
What is God-given is called human nature.
To fulfill that nature is called the moral law (Tao).
The cultivation of the moral law is called culture.
As translated by Lin Yutang in From Pagan to Christian (1959), p. 85
The Doctrine of the Mean
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
14 December 1756
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
Karl Popper (1902–1994) Austrian-British philosopher of science
Variant translation: The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, clear, and well-defined will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance. The main source of our ignorance lies in the fact that our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963)
Context: The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance. For this, indeed, is the main source of our ignorance — the fact that our knowledge can be only finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
