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The Life of Reason
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There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius with its omnipresent and fierce stupidity. Such a headless people has the mind of a worm and the claws of a dragon.
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Theory - when we use the word for a schema of things' relations and not for contemplation of them in their detail and fulness - is an expedient to cover ignorance and remedy confusion.
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We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
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Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
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Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
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Science is a half-way house between private sensation and universal vision.
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About one-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
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Born:
December 16, 1863
Died:
September 26, 1952
(aged 88)
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