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We Know How To Speak Many Falsehoods That Resemble Real Things, But We Know, When We Will, How To Speak True Things.
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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we
know, when we will, how to speak true things.
Hesiod
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We know to tell many fictions like to truths, and we know, when we will, to speak what is true.
-- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- The Theogony, Line 27...
How do we come to think of things, rather than of processes in this absolute flux?
By shutting our eyes to the successive events. It is an artificial attitude that makes sections in the stream change, and calls them things....
If we don't know life, how can we know death? -- Confuciu
Is knowledge knowable, and how do we know?
Is knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know that?
How many bureaucrats -- does it take to screw in a light bulb?
None, we contract out for things like that....
Cats know how we feel. They don't give a damn, but they know.
Let's show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown! -- The Ghostbuste
How many consultants -- does it take to change a light bulb?
We don't know. They never get past the feasibility study....