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“The authority of science promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies. Cartesian epistemology and classical ideals produced forms of rationality, scientificity and objectivity that, though efficacious in the quest for truth and knowledge, prohibited the intelligibility and legitimacy of black equality. In fact, to "think" such an idea was to be deemed irrational, barbaric or mad.”

“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!”

“The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.”

“If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.”

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”

“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.”