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The Cosmos and I explores with freedom of thought and common sense the adventures of the person as a self-conscious part of the universe. Explore anything and everything in company with Dr. M., recently retired and escaped from academia, the matrix of p.c. zeitgeist.
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1. The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Simone Weil (1909-1943)
2. The common run of students leave their place of education simply dissipated and relaxed by the multiplicity of subjects, which they have never really mastered, and so shallow as to not know their shallowness. J.H.Newman (1801-1890)
3. Not to know the relative disposition of things is the state of children. Ibid
4. You must be above your knowledge not under it, or it will oppress you, and the more you have of it, the greater will be your load. Ibid
5. The time may come, if we are not careful, when the attempt of a man to think freely will seem no less absurd than the delusion of a brave mechanic bent on making automobiles by hand. G. Bernanos (1888-1948)
6. We reason in order to enlarge our knowledge of matters that do not depend on us for being what they are. Gregory of Nyssa (330-395)
7. To those who can understand it, the cosmos speaks through the things that are being done, without regard or care for verbal explanation. Ibid
8. The intellect will flourish in whatever it makes its constant occupation. Ibid.