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- It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should influence ethics and…
- In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
- To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.
- We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.
- I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.
- In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can…
- Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject:…
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