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Do knowledge and understanding make you content and happy as a person?
The more knowledge and understanding that I seek and gain, the more that I realize it is not a priority to most people. And that is a source of angst.
4 min readMar 29, 2022
* “Of all people, only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs. All the years that have passed before them are added to their own. Unless we are very ungrateful, all those distinguished founders of holy creeds were born for us and prepared for us a way of life. By the toil of others we are lead into the presence of things which have been brought from darkness into light. We are excluded from no age, but we have access to them all; and if we are prepared…
