To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to k…

Wendell Berry
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To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think. ✨ Wendell Berry (2001). Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition, Counterpoint Press
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To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think. ✨ Wendell Berry (2001). Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition, Counterpoint Press

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