Knowledge for knowledge's sake
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| - | [[Image:A Young Girl Reading.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[A Young Girl Reading]]'' (c.[[1776]]) by [[Jean-Honoré Fragonard |Fragonard]]]] | + | [[Image:The Bookworm by Carl Spitzweg.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[The Bookworm]]'' (c. 1850) by [[Carl Spitzweg]]]] |
| - | [[Image:Theatre from Ars Memoriae by Robert Fludd.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Ars Memoriae]]'': The [[Theatre]] ([[1619]]) - [[Robert Fludd]] | + | <div style="float:right; border:1px solid gray; padding:5px; margin:0 0 1em 1em; text-align:right; background:lightyellow"> |
| - | <br> | + | “There are those who seek [[knowledge for the sake of knowledge]]; that is [[Curiosity]]. |
| - | “In the [[illusion|illusory]] [[babel]]s of language, an [[artist]] might [[avant-garde|advance]] specifically to get [[lost]], and to [[drugs|intoxicate]] himself in dizzying syntaxes, seeking odd [[intersection]]s of [[meaning]], [[strange]] corridors of history, [[unexpected]] echoes, [[unknown]] humors, or [[void]]s of [[knowledge…]] but this quest is [[risky]], full of bottomless [[fiction]]s and endless architectures and [[counter]]-architectures… at the end, if there is an end, are perhaps only [[meaningless]] reverberations.” --[[Robert Smithson]]]] | + | |
| - | [[Image:The Heart Has Its Reasons by Odilon Redon.jpg |thumb|right|200px|''[[The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing]]'' (c.[[1887]]) by [[Odilon Redon]], a phrase from the ''[[Pensées]]'' ([[1669]]) by [[Blaise Pascal]]]] | + | |
| + | There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is [[Vanity]]. | ||
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| + | There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is [[Love]].” | ||
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| + | ::--[[Bernard of Clairvaux]] in ''[[De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae]]'' | ||
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| + | *[[Sapere aude]] | ||
| + | *[[Knowledge]] | ||
| + | *[[At least I will learn this melody before I die]], Socrates | ||
| + | *[[History of science in early cultures]] | ||
| + | *[[Art for art's sake]] | ||
| + | *[[Causa scientiae]] | ||
| + | *[[Science and religion]] | ||
| + | *[[Credo ut intelligam]] | ||
| + | *[[Sacrifice of the intellect]] | ||
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Revision as of 12:37, 22 December 2013
“There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is Curiosity.
There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is Vanity.
There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.”
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- Sapere aude
- Knowledge
- At least I will learn this melody before I die, Socrates
- History of science in early cultures
- Art for art's sake
- Causa scientiae
- Science and religion
- Credo ut intelligam
- Sacrifice of the intellect
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