“The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.”
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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.