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None of the gods love wisdom or desire to become wise, for they are wise already --
nor if someone else is wise, do they love wisdom. Neither do the ignorant love wisdom
nor desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those
who are neither good nor beautiful nor sensible think they are good enough, and do
not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.
Plato, Symposium 203E-204A
Miranda O Wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
That has such people in't!
The Tempest, William Shakespeare, Act 5, Scene 1:181-184
Hence arises the fact that everything better struggles through only with difficulty;
what is noble and wise very rarely makes its appearance,
becomes effective, or meets with a hearing,
but the absurd and perverse in the realm of thought, the dull and
tasteless in the sphere of art, and the wicked and fraudulent in the sphere of action,
really assert a supremacy that is disturbed only by brief interruptions.
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I, §59, p.324 [Dover Publications, 1966, E.F.J. Payne translation]
Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou are not soe,
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, proore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee....
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
And death shall be no more, Death thou shalt die.
John Donne (1572-1631)
