“Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.”— Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”— Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988)
“Take one step towards the gods and they will take ten steps towards you.”— Mythologist Joseph Campbell
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Humans become far less fascinating to behold once you recognize how, for so many, each and every action is dictated by fear or the sexual impulse.
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“The greatest problem for the human race, to the solution of which Nature drives man, is the achievement of a universal civic society which administers law among men.”— Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose
“The ultimate metaphysical principle is the advance from disjunction to conjunction, creating a novel entity other than the entities given in disjunction.”— Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality
