Knowledge

Knowledge means

The more deeply I read, the less I have to say. It's funny how that works. I notice that my own thoughts, my own experiences, even my own relationships aren't as uniquely interesting as I want them to be. I still value the life I've built, but I recognize how much more it could be. By reading deeply, I realize how much more interesting I could be. That's worth passing on.

King Ecbert: Tell me honestly: What do you think of these works? Athelstan: I find them indescribably beautiful. King Ecbert: But they are clearly pagan! \[laughs\] King Ecbert: You are only a monk, Athelstan, and yet, somehow, I begin to trust you. I feel you... You are a kindred spirit. King Ecbert: Who? Who painted these images? What race of man was ever so glorious that they filled our world with such, as you say,…

Lastly, I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities, the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils, I hope I should bring in industrious observations, grounded…