“Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.”
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
