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“The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions. These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilisations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides.”
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“A case could be made, in fact, that the English were the first victims of the British empire: without their conquest, that empire could not have been built.”
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“We can fortell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is the thing that shall be.”
― Daedalus
― Daedalus
“It took man 250,000 years to transcend the hunting pack. It will not take him so long to transcend the nation.”
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“There is not a single effect in Nature, not even the least that exists, such that the most ingenious theorists can ever arrive at a complete understanding of it. This vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never understanding anything. For anyone who had experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is attained, would recognise that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.”
― Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican
― Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican
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