Quote by Arthur Machen
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and fi

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery. – Arthur Machen

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Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science. – Arthur Machen

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Dreams
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If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress. – Arthur Machen

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It is all nonsense, to be sure and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams – not by any means of all dreams – moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis. – Arthur Machen

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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victorias early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young. – Emily Blunt

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This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. – Carroll Quigley

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. – Khalil Gibran

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. – R. Buckminster Fuller

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I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced. – Robert Lanza

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We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. – Maria Montessori

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I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening. – Naguib Mahfouz

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