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“It must, however, be remembered that the world was already very old when science and philosophy began.”
― Early Greek Philosophy
― Early Greek Philosophy
“had to hurry breakfast, for the train started a little before eight, or rather it ought to have done so, for after rushing to the station at 7:30 I had to sit in the carriage for more than an hour before we began to move. It seems to me that the further east you go the more unpunctual are the trains. What ought they to be in China?”
― Works of Bram Stoker
― Works of Bram Stoker
“the essence of being human is an uncomfortable duality of ‘rational’ technology and ‘irrational’ belief. We are still a species in transition. The unknown person of Time-Byte I had the rational, ‘scientific’ knowledge and skill to make a tallow lamp and also a set of beliefs that were the imperative for his or her apparently irrational underground journey. That duality in human behaviour did not disappear at the end of the Stone Age. Even in the twentieth century, people were ‘rational’ enough to travel to the moon and back and yet still ‘irrational’ enough to believe in supernatural entities and forces that transcend, and in effect make nonsense of, all the laws of physics on which their moon journey depended. Does the human brain construct spaceships and the human mind fashion unseen forces and spirits? What is the difference between brain and mind? What is intelligence and what is human consciousness? How did early people reach a stage of evolution that allowed them to make and understand pictures?”
― Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
― Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
“the essence of being human is an uncomfortable duality of ‘rational’ technology and ‘irrational’ belief.”
― Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
― Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
“How much is your health worth, Ladies and Gentlemen? It’s priceless, isn’t it? Well, my friends, one half-dollar is all it takes to put you in the pink. That’s right, Ladies and Gents, for fifty pennies, Nature’s True Remedy will succeed where doctors have failed. Only Nature can heal and I have Nature right here in this little bottle. My secret formula, from God’s own laboratory, the Earth itself, will cure rheumatism, cancer, diabetes, baldness, bad breath, and curvature of the spine.”
― Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones: The American Medicine Show
― Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones: The American Medicine Show
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