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LXXI. The Disease of Knowledge
LXXI. The Disease of Knowledge
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LXXI. The Disease of Knowledge

LXXI

THE DISEASE OF KNOWLEDGE

To recognize one's ignorance of unknowable things is mental health, and to be ignorant of knowable things is sickness. Only by grieving over ignorance of knowable things are we in p. 48 mental health. The wise man is wise because he understands his ignorance and is grieved over it.

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