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The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking, Action, Ends
"Emerson: The Mind on Fire". Book by Robert D. Richardson (p. 153), March 6, 1995.
The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.