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The disease of knowledge

"To know the unknowable that is elevating. Not to know the knowable that is sickness. Only by becoming sick of sickness we can be without sickness. The holy man is not sick. Because he is sick of sickness, therefore he is not sick."

Author

Lao Tzu

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English

"To know the unknowable that is elevating. Not to know the knowable that is sickness. Only by becoming sick of sickness we can be without sickness. The holy man is not sick. Because he is sick of sickness, therefore he is not sick."

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