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It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved on this earth, where he first appeared as a weakly member of the animal kingdom, and on which each individual of his species must ever again appear as a helpless infant... is a direct fulfilment of all, or of most, of the dearest wishes in his fairy-tales. All these possessions he has acquired through culture. Long ago he formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omnisc
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― Civilization and Its Discontents
― Civilization and Its Discontents
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Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
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― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
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