“Knowledge without sense is double folly.” – Baltasar Gracian
What is the danger of knowledge without sense, anyway? Why is it double folly as opposed to just folly x 1?
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>understanding the world completely, on a ‘head’ level without realizing it on a ‘heart’ level is much more dangerous than not understanding at all.
it’s like handing a mentally unstable person a loaded automatic weapon.
every person that does wrong in a big way in society, ‘knows’ how to do it. they ‘know’ what life is about, how to get to the top, and get things done, but it’s a ‘know’ in a check-off-the-boxes, formula-for-success kind of way. and indeed, that is the most harmful.
when you get that close to truth, and yet are still that one degree off, you have amazing success.
but it’s a midas success.
every single thing you touch turns into cold, lifeless gold.
and that is what’s dangerous.