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The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very
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“To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”
― The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
― The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
“The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.”
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“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
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“The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image, but it paid this price for its privileges: that the finite and specific animal body of this species contained a brain capable of conceiving the infinite and wishing to be infinite itself.”
― The Corrections
― The Corrections
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Franz Kafka
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Franz Kafka's most famous works: The Metamorphosis, The Trial, The Castle, ... ...more
Jorge Luis Borges
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