Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without p…

Arthur Schopenhauer
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Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.
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Life is a business that does not cover the costs. ✨ The World as Will and Representation, Volume II (On the Vanity and Suffering of Life). Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819.
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This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

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