About the scientific revolution: it outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes.
Herbert Butterfield
The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.
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The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance.. Produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward.. Allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.
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But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.
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The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely to lose his good story.
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If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.
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