Renaissance

Wheresoever we have spoken plainly, there we have spoken nothing, but where we have used riddles and figures, there we have hidden the truth.
~Rosarium Philosophorum 1550

The science of alchemy I like very well...not only for the profits it brings in melting metals... I like it also for the sake of the allegory and secret signification, which is exceedingly fine, touching the resurrection of the dead at the last day.
~Isaac Newton 1642-1727

This invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practise their memory... You have invented an elixir not of memory but of reminding ...the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant..."
~Socrates, Phaedrus 469 -399 BC

Shut your eyes and change to, and wake another way of seeing, which everyone has but few use.
~Plotinus, The Enneads A.D. 205-270

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.
~Francis Bacon 1561-1626