Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways in science, in politics, in every bold intention.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.
By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
It's all make believe, isn't it?
I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.
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