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The excluded when on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true leper are only the illustration ordained by god to make us understand this wondro...more

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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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Any fact becomes important when it’s connected to another. The connection changes the perspective; it leads you to think that every detail of the worl...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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Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

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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