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“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
tags: knowledge, life, misattributed-to-kant, paraphrasing-herbert-spencer, science
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