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Re: Great quote about progress in creativity



This is my favorite:

"In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in 
innumerable solar systems, there once was a star upon which clever animals 
invented knowledge. That was the haughtiest and most mendacious minute of 
'world history'; -- yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few 
breaths 
the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die."

Nietzsche, "On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense"
----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Rick Walker"



>
> "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man 
> persists to
> adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the 
> unreasonable."
>
>     ------ George Bernard Shaw:
>