“The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.”
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The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
