There are certain points I do not yet understand:They will be clear later. I am also convincedThat you only hold a fragment of the explanation.It is only because of what you do not understandThat you feel the need to declare what you do.There is more to understand: hold fast to thatAs the way to freedom.

Whatever you have learned, Harry, you must rememberThat there is always more: we cannot rest in beingThe impatient spectators of malice or stupidity.We must try to penetrate the other private worldsOf make-believe and fear. To rest in our own sufferingIs evasion of suffering. We must learn to suffer more.

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,But nearness to death no nearer to God.Where is the life we have lost in living?Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

Where is the wisdom?We lost in knowledgeWhere is the wisdom we lost in knowledge? ?????

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.