Once men sang together round a table in chorus; now one man sings alone, for the absurd reason that he can sing better. If our civilization goes on like this, only one man will laugh, because he can laugh better than the rest.
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Zum Autor"Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say."
"Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified."
"Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority."
"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
"Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination."
"Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years."