For these reasons, as soon as my age permitted me to pass from under the control of my instructors, I entirely abandoned the study of letters, and resolved no longer to seek any other science than the knowledge of myself, or of the great book of the world. I spent the remainder of my youth in traveling, in visiting courts and armies, in holding intercourse with men of different dispositions and ranks, in collecting varied experience, in proving myself in the different situations into which fortune threw me.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
The net effect of this language system was not to keep these people ignorant of what they were doing, but to prevent them from equating it with their old, “normal” knowledge of murder and lies. Eichmann’s great susceptibility to catch words and stock phrases, combined with his incapacity for ordinary speech, made him, of course, an ideal subject for “language rules.
Nothing in nature is by chance… Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
But,’ I reminded myself, ‘it’s common knowledge that life isn’t worth living, anyhow.
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
