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“The Master said, To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than to merely prefer it.”
― Confucius, The Analects

“Tzu-lu asked how one should serve ghosts and spirits. The Master said, Till you have learned to serve men, how can you serve ghosts? Tzu-lu then ventured upon a question about the dead. The Master said, Till you know about the living, how are you to know about the dead?”
― Confucius, The Analects

“Here is the question Nietzsche raises: "To what extent can thought, judgement, all of logic be considered as the outer aspect, or symptom of a much more inner and fundamental occurrence?”
― Roberto Calasso, The Forty-Nine Steps

“Hence, given the right nourishment there is nothing that will not grow, and deprived of it there is nothing that will not wither away.”
― Mencius, Mencius