Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.
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Quotations by Julian S. Huxley
Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience. Julian S. Huxley
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"Man… cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him." – Friedrich Nietzsche
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But how can we venture to reprove or praise the universe! Let us beware of attributing to it heartlessness and unreason or their opposites: it is neither perfect nor beautiful nor noble, and has no desire to become any of these; it is by no means striving to imitate mankind! It is quite impervious to all our aesthetic and moral judgements! It has likewise no impulse to self-preservation or impulses of any kind; neither doe sit know any laws. Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress…
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