To flee into an ideal world is a false resource of transient success; it only facilitates the play of the adversary; and when knowledge only reflects itself, it becomes unsubstantial and empty, or resolves itself into illusions and phrase.


Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects, Second Series, Gustav Magmus, Longmans, Green & Co. 1903

Hermann von Helmholtz Quotes

To flee into an ideal world is a false resource of transient success; it only facilitates the play of the adversary; and when knowledge only reflects ...

To flee into an ideal world is a false resource of transient success; it only facilitates the play of the adversary; and when knowledge only reflects ...

To flee into an ideal world is a false resource of transient success; it only facilitates the play of the adversary; and when knowledge only reflects ...

To flee into an ideal world is a false resource of transient success; it only facilitates the play of the adversary; and when knowledge only reflects ...