“The “end of a world” never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion.”
The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times (1945)
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French metaphysician 1886–1951Related quotes

“Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end”

“An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.”
"The Year it Came Apart" http://books.google.com/books?id=MekCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA30, New York magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1 (30 December 1974 – 6 January 1975), p. 30

“In the end, a theory that can’t be shown to be wrong can never be shown to be right.”
Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 34