Posted by: Francesca Nacca
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
You proud european man of the XIX century, you rant! Your knowledge does not bring nature to its completion, but only kills your own.
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You proud european man of the XIX century, you rant! Your knowledge does not bring nature to its completion, but only kills your own.
It's better to be insane on your own than wise with others opinion.
In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the highest and most mendacious minute of "world history" -- yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die.
One might invent such a fable and still not have illustrated sufficiently how wretched, how shadowy and flighty, how aimless and arbitrary, the human intellect appears in nature. There have been eternities when it did not exist; and when it is done for again, nothing will have happened.
The only thing that can be said on sincerity is that nobody has been sincere enough.
We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves.
What is truth?-Inertia; that hypothesis which gives rise to contentment; smallest expenditure of spiritual force.
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.
In the end one becomes what one is.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.