men have not been right to sophisticate primitive ideas;
Sergio Emanuelцитує2 роки тому
The true man of genius deliberately subordinates himself, reduces himself to a negative, and allows his genius to play through him as It will.
Sergio Emanuelцитує2 роки тому
The Order to which I belong," pursued Simon Iff," does not believe anything; it knows, or it doubts, as the case may be; and it seeks ever to increase human knowledge by the method of science,
Aarón Matías Salazar Ríosцитує2 роки тому
were only thrust upon the unwilling people by bullies who knew that there was money in them. Who are your 'men of science' in the popular notion of to-day? Edison and Marconi, neither of whom ever invented anything,
Aarón Matías Salazar Ríosцитує2 роки тому
the truth is that it is guarded as no other secret ever was in all history, by the simple fact that, with all the help in the world, it takes half a lifetime to begin to master even one small section of it.
Aarón Matías Salazar Ríosцитує2 роки тому
A line can only be aware of another line at a point of contact; a plane of another plane at the line where they cut; a cube of another cube at the surface common to both; and a soul of another soul where their ideas are in conjunction.
Aarón Matías Salazar Ríosцитує2 роки тому
The Order to which I belong," pursued Simon Iff," does not believe anything; it knows, or it doubts, as the case may be;
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Only because you try to build without foundations. No
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a cadaverous individual with the manners of an undertaker
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No: her reason for alighting at Charing Cross was utterly unconnected with any one of the facts hitherto discussed; had you asked her, she would have replied with her unusual smile, insured for seventy-five thousand dollars, that it was convenient for the Savoy Hotel.