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It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.


Arthur Eddington

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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER No one can transcend their own individuality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
ARTHUR KOESTLER The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so yo...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spect...
ARTHUR KOESTLER The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have sa...
ARTHUR QUINN Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.
ARTHUR QUINN Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions ...
ARTHUR QUINN The word of man is the most durable of all material.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivatio...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical G...
ARTHUR MILLER Rascals are always sociable -- more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in hi...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Socialism is a vast machine for churning out piles of goods marked Take it or leave it.
ARTHUR SELDON Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are locat...
ARTHUR KOESTLER True creativity often starts where language ends.
ARTHUR KOESTLER Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and wh...
ARTHUR PHELPS A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Id...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
ARTHUR MILLER The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want ...
ARTHUR BRISBANE The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
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