There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.
I have thousands of opinions still – but that is down from millions – and, as always, I know nothing.
My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
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