Is is as if life or reality itself has had it in mind all along to unravel the very design i have been trying all along to impose on it.
Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin or inmost nature.
Auguste Comte And Positivism
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Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin or inmost nature.
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