"The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes."

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Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

James G. Frazer

#Goal Quotes #Infinite Quotes #Progression Quotes

“... nothing ever dies that's worth remembering.”
“We ain't speak, clicking heat is our Morse code.”
“One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius.”
“The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.”
“My whole act is confession.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To see a promising solution to a dilemma and then just leave it to questionable development at its own pace without trying to aid its implementation would seem a dereliction.”

Source : "The Human Predicament: A Way Out?". Contemporary Philosophy 11(6), p. 4, 1985.
“There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan. There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.”

Source : "Angela Davis: 'There is an unbroken line of police violence in the US that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2014.
“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”

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