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The Old Philosopher's Canon of Reason and Virtue: 71. The Disease of Knowledge

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1. To know the unknowable, that is elevating. Not to know the knowable, that is sickness. 2. Only by becoming sick of sickness can we be without sickness. 3. The holy man is not sick. Because he is sick of sickness, therefore he is not sick.

Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive, file tao/crv/crv077.htm.

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