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Aphorisms on Wisdom

Knowledge and Wisdom
There are two allied powers in man; knowledge & wisdom.
Knowledge is so much of the truth seen in a distorted medium
as the mind arrives at by groping, wisdom what the eye of di-
vine vision sees in the spirit.
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Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast &
eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than rea-
son exceeds the knowledge of the senses.
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Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born;
before that liberation, I had only knowledge.
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What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false
appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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Reason divides, fixes details & contrasts them; Wisdom unifies,
marries contrasts in a single harmony.
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Either do not give the name of knowledge to your beliefs only
and of error, ignorance or charlatanism to the beliefs of others,
or do not rail at the dogmas of the sects and their intolerance.
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What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest
is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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My soul knows that it is immortal. But you take a dead body to
pieces and cry triumphantly "Where is your soul and where is
your immortality?"
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