"The scientific quest for knowledge and understanding, the technological quest for solutions to practical problems, are but aspects of the central and fundamental quest: to see, to experience, to enjoy what is of supreme value in existence, whatever this may be. Impersonal, academic inquiry, properly organized and constituted, is there to aid what really matters, the searching, the explorations, that we individuals engage in as we live, in seeking to apprehend, to experience, to participate in, what is of value, potentially and actually, in existence. The philosophy of wisdom is not just a conception of inquiry; it is also a way of life." - Nicholas Maxwell - From Knowledge to Wisdom

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An essential characteristic of wisdom is the integration and sharing of authentic lived experience. We are beginning to restore an understanding that human consciousness transcends many of the barriers that we thought existed and that we are more deeply connected, to both others and the larger world, than we have been led to believe.

 "Impersonal, academic inquiry, properly organized and constituted, is there to aid what really matters, the searching, the explorations, that we individuals engage in as we live, in seeking to apprehend, to experience, to participate in, what is of value, potentially and actually, in existence. The philosophy of wisdom is not just a conception of inquiry; it is also a way of life."  
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Nicholas Maxwell - From Knowledge to Wisdom