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| 7911 | Theory vanishes when one has obtained wisdom |
| Full Idea: As the drops of dew in contact/ With the sun's rays disappear,/ So all theorizings vanish,/ Once one has obtained wisdom. | |||
| From: Rahulabhadra (Hymn to Perfect Wisdom [c.150], v 10) | |||
| A reaction: I suspect that the western view is that wisdom is good theory. This sounds like the sort of thing Wittgenstein would have said. Remarks like this encourage people to skip study, with the illusion that they can go straight to wisdom. |