Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas the interest of science lies in the art of making science.
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Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.Paul Valery
Everything that is simple is theoratically false, everything that is complicated is pragmatically useless.
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History is the science of things which are not repeated.
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The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.
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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
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