Perhaps no theoretical man can be equal to such a burden: to feel knowledge as power when one’s mind reshapes the world — Algis Valiunas
Perhaps no theoretical man can be equal to such a burden: to feel knowledge as power when one’s mind reshapes the world — Algis Valiunas
Perhaps no theoretical man can be equal to such a burden: to feel knowledge as power when one’s mind reshapes the world — Algis Valiunas
Perhaps no theoretical man can be equal to such a burden: to feel knowledge as power when one’s mind reshapes the world — Algis Valiunas
Perhaps no theoretical man can be equal to such a burden: to feel knowledge as power when one’s mind reshapes the world — Algis Valiunas
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Perhaps no theoretical man can be equal to such a burden: to feel knowledge as power when one’s mind reshapes the world irrevocably, to see the light of truth as the agent of some dark majesty, is not grace but ordeal.

— Algis Valiunas
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