Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any … - Isak Dinesen

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If you ruled out partial successes, there would be no progress at all.

Isak Dinesen

Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has called it Birth. The habit of honoring one single instant of the universal process to the disadvantage of other instants has done more, perhaps, than anything to obfuscate the crystal clearness of the fundamental flux.

Balance, Clearness, Errors, Humanity, Moment, Perhaps

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