"In order that knowledge may be acquired, it is before all things necessary to 

 distinguish between the understanding and the imagination." 



—B. de Spinoza, in Correspondence, 1666. 



•'Error consists mainly in what the poet calls 'the falsehood of extremes' — that 

 IS, IN allowing one opinion so to absorb us as to take no account of ITS OPPOSITE." 



— Samuel Laing, in "Modem Science and Modem Thought." 



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