Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.
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Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one’s consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.
Love of England is very nearly the strongest emotion that I possess.
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
In scientific matters it is always experience, and never authority without experience, that gives the final verdict, whether in favour or against.
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I felt so weak and unhappy that I buried my face in the ground: I could not bear the strain of seeing around me the things of the earth. I felt convinced that every movement and every thought was forced, and that one had to be on one’s guard against them.
The danger is one which democracy by itself does not suffice to avert. A democracy in which the majority exercises its power without restraint may be almost as tyrannical as a dictatorship. Toleration of minorities is an essential part of wise democracy, but a part which is not always sufficiently remembered.
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Gregor’s glance then turned to the window. The dreary weather – the rain drops were falling audibly down on the metal window ledge – made him quite melancholy.
It consisted essentially in a dialectical gymnastics which gave the symbol of speech, the word, an absolute meaning, so that words came in the end to have a substantiality with which the ancients could invest their logos only by attributing to it a mystical value. The great achievement of scholasticism was that it laid the foundations of a solidly built intellectual function, the sine qua non of modern science and technology.
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