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Francis Bacon on the Dark Side of Curiosity and the Vanity of Knowledge

“Knowledge may not be as a courtesan, for pleasure and vanity only, or as a bond-woman, to acquire and gain to her master’s use; but as a spouse, for generation, fruit, and comfort.”

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Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists

“Only mind can discover how to do so much with so little as forever to be able to sustain and physically satisfy all humanity.”

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Cultural Icons on Criticism

Twain, Sontag, Bradbury, Hitchens, Didion, and more.

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Inside Kurt Cobain’s Letters and Journals

“No amount of effort can save you from oblivion.”

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Susan Sontag’s Radical Vision for Remixing Education

A new order of knowledge for cultivating lifelong learning.

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Alexander Graham Bell on Success, Innovation, and Creativity

“It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider … who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.”

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Richard Feynman on the Universal Responsibility of Scientists

On harvesting the fruit of freedom of thought.

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How to Tame Trolls: Vi Hart on Dealing with Negative Comments

“Your greatest creation is yourself. Like any great work of art, creating a great self means putting in hard work, every day, for years.”

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Galileo vs. God: The Father of Modern Science on Religion, Truth, and Human Nature

“Who indeed will set bounds to human ingenuity? Who will assert that everything in the universe capable of being perceived is already discovered and known?”

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What Is Love? Great Definitions from 400 Years of Great Literature

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything.”

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Search results for “bertrand russell”

“Knowledge may not be as a courtesan, for pleasure and vanity only, or as a bond-woman, to acquire and gain to her master’s use; but as a spouse, for generation, fruit, and comfort.”

“Only mind can discover how to do so much with so little as forever to be able to sustain and physically satisfy all humanity.”

Twain, Sontag, Bradbury, Hitchens, Didion, and more.

“No amount of effort can save you from oblivion.”

A new order of knowledge for cultivating lifelong learning.

“It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider … who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.”

On harvesting the fruit of freedom of thought.

“Your greatest creation is yourself. Like any great work of art, creating a great self means putting in hard work, every day, for years.”

“Who indeed will set bounds to human ingenuity? Who will assert that everything in the universe capable of being perceived is already discovered and known?”

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything.”

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