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The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the read more
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and
dissipation without pleasure.
The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and
dissipation without pleasure.
Without an element of the obscene there can be no true and deep aesthetic or moral conception of life...It is read more
Without an element of the obscene there can be no true and deep aesthetic or moral conception of life...It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene they could never have dared to be great.
If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.
If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.
Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.
There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There read more
There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action.
