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• I think the problem isn't the amount of knowledge we have to assimilate in our world, but the rate at which we can assimiliate it.
  Science, engineering, and technology do not yield the 'whys' of truth...
• The aim of meditating about the world is finally to change the world. -- Donald Barthelme
• Knowledge of the lowest kind is un-unified knowledge
  science is partially-unified knowledge; philosophy is completely-unified knowledge....
• A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive shortwave facilities scattered about the globe.
  It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals....
• Its a dogma-eat-dogma world!
• Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were no
  but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men....
• The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all eve
  the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature....
• Art, science, philosophy, religion--each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• And no philosophy, sadly, has all the answers. No matter how assured we may be about certain aspects of our belief, there are always painful inconsistencies, exceptions, and contradictions.
  This is true in religion as it is in politics, and is self-evident to all except fanatics and the naive....