"Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the Gnostic constructs his system. The building of systems is a gnostic form of reasoning, not a philosophical one."

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Source : Eric Voegelin, James L. Wizer (1998). “The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin”, p.273, University of Missouri Press

Eric Voegelin

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“I choose to stay present, to unlearn how to unlove, to love, and to practice my worthiness of it.”
“It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to girls and boys who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library.”
“The earth has Fates all her own. The earth has purpose. And we can only partially know what that purpose is.”
“She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.”
“The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.”
“When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose.”
“Software engineering economics.”

Source : Mingshu Li, Barry Boehm, Leon J. Osterweil (2005). “Unifying the Software Process Spectrum: International Software Process Workshop, SPW 2005, Beijing, China, May 25-27, 2005 Revised Selected Papers”, p.66, Springer Science & Business Media
“Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.”

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