We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
Science fiction writers I am sorry to say really do not know anything. We can't talk about science because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial and usually our fiction is dreadful.
We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful irrespective of guilt.
I know that I have lived because I have felt and feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
A toothache or a violent passion is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes its character its importance or insignificance.
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility knowledge by forgetting how to speak by silence how to live by dying.
The knowledge of anything since all things have causes is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
When I see a good singer I get teary-eyed. Part of it is jealousy because all comedians are frustrated rock stars. That's a fact.
That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.
My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.
Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies but they never can be friends because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
But when I would see the surrogate my first instinct my first reaction would be jealousy because she was doing what I wanted to do.
People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.
Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies but they never can be friends because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it.