“For why should the thirst for knowledge be aroused, only to be disappointed and punished?”

“What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life, is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy?”

“Knowledge can be a curse.The moment you gain it, you thirst for more.”

“...;he was at home whenever he could quench his thirst for knowledge;...”

“An idiot will take punishment without gaining knowledge but the. Wise will improve himself through punishment.”

“Disappointment is considered bad. A thoughtless prejudice. How, if not through disappointment, should we discover what we have expected and hoped for? And where, if not in this discovery, should self-knowledge lie? So how could one gain clarity about oneself without disappointment?...One could have the hope that he would become more real by reducing expectations, shrink to a hard, reliable core and thus be immune to the pain of disappointment. But how would it be to lead a life that banished every long, bold expectation, a life where there were only banal expectations like "the bus is coming"?”