

“Uncertainty, in the presence of vivid hopes and fears, is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.”
― History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition
― History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition

“There was a very general development, first from monarchy to aristocracy, then to an alternation of tyranny and democracy.”
― A History of Western Philosophy: And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
― A History of Western Philosophy: And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. For while in all other kinds of art it is possible to distinguish the matter from the form, and the understanding can always make this distinction, yet it is the constant effort of art to obliterate it.”
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“Atoms, by collision, produce vortices, which generate bodies and ultimately worlds.”
― A History of Western Philosophy: And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
― A History of Western Philosophy: And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
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