“The average person found himself forced to choose between a scientific priesthood mumbling unintelligible pessimism, and a theological priesthood mumbling incredible hopes. In this situation”
― The Story of Philosophy, Updated and Revised: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers from Ptahhotep to Sartre
― The Story of Philosophy, Updated and Revised: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers from Ptahhotep to Sartre
“if knowledge became too great for communication, it would degenerate into scholasticism, and the weak acceptance of authority; humankind would slip into a new age of faith, worshiping at a respectful distance its new priests; and civilization,”
― The Story of Philosophy, Updated and Revised: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers from Ptahhotep to Sartre
― The Story of Philosophy, Updated and Revised: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers from Ptahhotep to Sartre
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