
“The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.”
Appendix, Scepticism of the Instrument
A Modern Utopia (1905)
“The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.”
Appendix, Scepticism of the Instrument
A Modern Utopia (1905)
“One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.”
Source: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 2, sect. 6
“For crude classifications and false generalisations are the curse of all organised human life.”
Source: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 10, sect. 1