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Knowledge (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠to a certain extent a second existence.

Knowledge (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠results without their connection is like the doctor's who knows the disease and the cure but not what links them.

Knowledge (n.) arose, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠like every other organ, only for self-preservation, which is why plants, needing so little, need none at all, and knowledge marks the limit of animality.

Knowledge (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the purer and more correct the more it has freed itself from the will — as that fruit is best which has no after-taste of the soil it grew in.

Knowledge (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the abstract kind adds nothing new — the calculus tells you nothing about the curve you could not see — but it makes what you saw storable, shareable, and usable by many hands.

Knowledge (n.) not ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠worked over in one's own mind is a large library in disorder — less useful than a small one in order; a man only knows what he has pondered.

Knowledge (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a tool the will lit for itself, like any organ; with it came illusion, error and irresolution, ending the infallible sureness with which the will had worked in the dark.

Knowledge (n.) grew ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠to the will as the head to the body: it knows of things only their relations to what we want — where, when, why, whither — and if those were taken away the objects would vanish for it.