“Man has to awaken to wonder — and so perhaps do peoples.”

Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 5e
Context: Man has to awaken to wonder — and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

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Austrian-British philosopher 1889–1951

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