Alfred L. Kroeber Quote

The most important part of our lives — our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations — takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.


The Modern Temper, Chapter Three (p. 50), Harcourt, Brace & Company. 1929


The most important part of our lives — our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations — takes place in a universe of illusions which science...

The most important part of our lives — our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations — takes place in a universe of illusions which science...

The most important part of our lives — our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations — takes place in a universe of illusions which science...

The most important part of our lives — our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations — takes place in a universe of illusions which science...