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I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yourself to certain areas of knowledge. You cannot b...more

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…the more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn’t matter if things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a...more

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Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in al...more

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A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is f...more

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Then why do you want to know?""Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and p...more