“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.”
Gk chesterton
“When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.”
“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment”
The collective matrix of a science at a given time is determined by a kind of establishment, which includes universities, learned societies, and, more recently, the editorial offices of technical journals. Like other establishments, they are consciously or unconsciously bent on preserving the status quo- partly because unorthodox innovations are a threat to their authority, but also because of the deeper fear that their laboriously erected an intellectual edifice might collapse under the impact.
By Arthur koestler
One should like to know what a man who has no knowledge has really gained, and what a man of knowledge has not gained
First there is knowledge.Then there is asceticism.Then there is the knowledge that comes after asceticism.
The ultimate’knower’ is worth a hundred thousand ascetics .
There are many trees, not all of them bear fruit.
There are many fruits:not all of them may be eaten. 
Many, too, are the kinds of knowledge:yet not all of them are of value to men.
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