„Knowledge is the plague of life, and consciousness, an open wound in its heart.“

— Emil M. Cioran

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„What is lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution but universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem and education of the billions who are its victims.“
— Jr.
„What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidst the night of non-being.“
— Vladimir Nabokov
„What maintains the marriage and what is it? Only the knowledge of the hearts, that is its beginning and end.“
— Paracelsus
„Knowledge itself is 'I'. The nature of (this) knowledge is existence-consciousness-bliss.“
— Ramana Maharshi
„Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.“
— Haruki Murakami
„The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.“
— Maya Angelou
„Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.“
— Jane Austen
„Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. It is not in the brain but in the heart that the Atman, possessed of knowledge, power, and activity, has its seat.“
— Swami Vivekananda