“A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.”
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Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.