Every boat is copied from another boat... Let's reason as follows in the manner of Darwin. It is clear that a very badly made boat will end up at the bottom after one or two voyages, and thus never be copied... One could then say, with complete rigor, that it is the sea herself who fashions the boats, choosing those which function and destroying the others.
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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have.
Permalink to quote #3 If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.
Permalink to quote #5 We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.
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