"An oratorical style often has the same drawbacks as those operas in which the music prevents you from hearing the words. Here the words prevent you from seeing the thoughts."

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“All these philosophers are no more than surgeons.”

“Fortunately, when he lacks reason he also lacks words.”

“In such times, if you want neither to lie nor to wound, you are reduced to being silent.”

“Stars more beautiful to the eyes than the telescope that robs them of their illusions.”

“The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them forever.”

“Of what must be said and what must not be said. The importance of knowing.”

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Music1940

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— Alastair Reynolds

Literature1966

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— Vernon Coleman

Psychology1946

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"The ancients, who under the leadership of Pythagoras first made science systematic, defined philosophy as the love of wisdom... This 'wisdom' he defined as the knowledge, or science, of the truth in r…"

— Nicomachus

Mathematics

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