Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 200 | The View more quotes about knowledge">knowledge is regarded as being somehow within one. |
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Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 197 | "Do not ask the stones or the trees how to live; they cannot tell you; they do not have tongues; do not ask the wise man how to live, for, if he knows, he will know he cannot tell you; if you would learn how to live do not ask the question; its answer is not in the question but in the answer, which is not in words; do not ask how to live, but, instead, proceed to do so". |
| 1 | 198 | I do not fully understand this saying. |
| 1 | 199 | How, for example, can one proceed to do what one does not know how to do? The answer, I suspect, is that the Gorean belief is that one does, truly, in some way, know how to live, though one may not know that one knows. |
| 1 | 200 | The knowledge is regarded as being somehow within one. |
| 1 | 201 | Perhaps it is regarded as being somehow innate, or a function of instincts. |
| 1 | 202 | I do not know. |
| 1 | 203 | The saying may also be interpreted as encouraging one to act, to behave, to do, and then, in the acting, the doing, the behaving, to learn. |
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"Do not ask the stones or the trees how to live; they cannot tell you; they do not have tongues; do not ask the wise man how to live, for, if he knows, he will know he cannot tell you; if you would learn how to live do not ask the question; its answer is not in the question but in the answer, which is not in words; do not ask how to live, but, instead, proceed to do so".
I do not fully understand this saying.
How, for example, can one proceed to do what one does not know how to do? The answer, I suspect, is that the Gorean belief is that one does, truly, in some way, know how to live, though one may not know that one knows.
The knowledge is regarded as being somehow within one.
Perhaps it is regarded as being somehow innate, or a function of instincts.
I do not know.
The saying may also be interpreted as encouraging one to act, to behave, to do, and then, in the acting, the doing, the behaving, to learn.
- (Marauders of Gor)