“The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.”
R. H. Tawney (1880–1962) English philosopher
Conclusion
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926)
“You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.”
— Haruki Murakami, book Sputnik Sweetheart
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