“Good music is very close to primitive language.”
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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.