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“Why therefore should we hesitate any longer to grant to it the movement which accords naturally with its firm, rather than put the whole world in a commotion—the world whose limits we do not and cannot know? And why not admit that the appearance of daily revolution belongs to the heavens but the reality belongs to the Earth? And things are as when Aeneas said in Virgil: “ We sail out of the harbor, and the land and the cities move away.” Page 23”
― On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
― On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
“Indeed, most people have in their hearts even if not consciously as the supreme guide and maxim of their conduct the resolve to get by with the least possible expenditure of thought, because to them thinking is hard and burdensome. Consequently, they think only as much as their trade or business makes absolutely necessary, and then again as much is as demanded by their various pastimes which is what their conversation is just as much as their play; but both must be so ordered that they can be tackled with a minimum of thought. Page 127”
― Essays and Aphorisms
― Essays and Aphorisms
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