'Yes, Professor, knowledge and understanding are quite different. Only understanding can lead to being, whereas knowledge is but a passing presence in it. New knowledge displaces the old and the result is, as it were, a pouring from the empty into the void.

— G. I. Gurdjieff All and Everything: Meetings with Remarkable Men (1963)

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