Carolina QuotesIn Greek fable, as in Christian, it is asserted that there is a forbidden knowledge which brings nothing into world but woe. Our generation has had ample demonstration of what that knowledge is. It is knowledge of the useful rather than the true and the good, of techniques rather than of ends.
Richard M. Weaver Carolinian
Source
p. 72
- work
- Ideas have Consequences (1948)
- year
- 1948
- locator
- p. 72
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