Wednesday, December 12, 2007

À penser

But let it be considered that hardly any thing can strike the mind with its greatness, which does not make some sort of approach towards infinity; which nothing can do whilst we are able to perceive its bounds; but to see an object distinctly, and to perceive its bounds, is one and the same thing.
A clear idea is therefore another name for a little idea.

Edmund Burke, 1756

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