“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.”
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“If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.”
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“We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.”
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“Utopianism is, as Plato taught us at the outset, the fire with which we must play because it is the only way we can find out what we are. We need to criticize false understandings of Utopia, but the easy way out provided by realism is deadly.”
― The Closing of the American Mind
― The Closing of the American Mind
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