Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.
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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
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Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.
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