This is what Montaigne has to say about our mania to perpetuate the things pleasurable, including knowledge:
"We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own. Man can in nothing fix himself to his actual necessity: of pleasure, wealth, and power, he grasps at more than he can hold; his greediness is incapable of moderation. And I find that in curiosity of knowing he is the same; he cuts himself out more work than he can do, and more than he needs to do: extending the utility of knowledge, to the full of its matter''
हे खरं असलं तरी ""अनंत अमुची ज्ञानासक्ती...'' असं म्हणत आपली ज्ञानलालसा जोपासणाऱ्या माणसांना, विशेषतः मराठी माणसांना अजून विशेष ज्ञात नसलेली माहिती मला द्यायची आहे.
मराठीत अनेक विद्वान असले तरी आधुनिक काळात मराठी भाषक अभ्यासकांची वानवा आहे "असेच खेदाने म्हणावे लागेल.' अन्यथा ज्ञानकोशकार केतकरांची परंपरा पुढे चालवणाऱ्या विद्वानांनी साकारलेला मराठी विश्वकोशाचा मोठा प्रकल्प असा वाऱ्यावर सोडायचा धीर महाराष्ट्र शासनाला झाला नसता.
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