I have realized this semester a strange feeling, one which I have never experienced before. A desire and thirst for knowledge, for learning. Having long viewed the world as a fascinating place, chock full of mystery, I have never quite taken the leap towards a love of all things scholastic. School has always come rather easily for me, as a result I have never be one of those blessed with determination, ambition and a love for knowledge. All due to my own laziness. The humanities course which is a requirement for any student at my school tends to be rather intense. It is a melding, a composite of the history, culture, peoples, art, literature of the past. Classical, Hellenistic, The Allegory of the Cave, humanism, the Golden Age of Democracy, Charlemagne. I love it all.
"I acknowledge and do not deny that you loved me before I existed, and that you love me unspeakably much as one gone mad over your creature...The more I enter you, the more I discover, and the more I discover, the more I seek you. You are insatiable, you in whose depth the soul is sated yet remains always hungry for you, always thirsty for you."
Catherine of Sienna
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i came across this quote recently----not to know is bad, not to want to know is worse!
its good to learn and grow. knowledge is an important thing as long as we remember to always be learning and never forgetting that we cannot know it all!
sometimes its easier not to know but to want to know and learn is a great thing!!
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