Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
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