Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
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Nationality: Swiss Type: Theologian Born: August 12, 1905 Death: June 26, 1988 |
“It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.”
“Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.”