This quote sounded fishy to me so I googled it but can't quite find the source. Do you have one?
One blog said it was a paraphrase of this:
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/augustine/confess.xi.xxxv.html
But if so it's a bad paraphrase. It's tricky translating words from someone writing a long time ago.
It seems like he is talking about how it's bad to try things with no good end in mind--the specific examples given being astrology and mediums. Certainly curiosity can be bad.From this disease of curiosity are all those strange sights exhibited in the theatre. Hence men go on to search out the hidden powers of nature (which is besides our end), which to know profits not...nor care I to know the courses of the stars, nor did my soul ever consult ghosts departed; all sacrilegious mysteries I detest.
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