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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

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Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure civ...more

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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

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Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of th...more

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All science is a charted ignorance and belongs to Maya.

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..we have become wealthy, and wealth is the prelude to art. In every country where centuries of physical effort have accumulated the means for luxury ...more

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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We are tossed about by external causes in many ways, and like waves driven by contrary winds, we waver and are unconscious of the issue and our fate.'...more

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The matter of sedition is of two kinds: much poverty and much discontentment....The causes and motives of sedition are, innovation in religion; taxes;...more

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And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both mar...more

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But he had expressed to Mme. du Chatelet the hope that a way out might lie in applying philosophy to history, and endeavoring to trace, beneath the fl...more