Carl L. Becker Quote

We really haven't time to stand amazed, either at the starry firmament above or the Freudian complexes within us. The multiplicity of things to manipulate and make use of so fully engage our attention that we have neither the leisure nor the inclination to seek a rational explanation of the force that makes them function so efficiently.

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers, Chapter I (pp. 23-24), Yale University Press. 1932