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Biography - François Rabelais:

French Renaissance writer *Approximate years of birth and death.
Born: 1494 - Died: 1553
Period:
15th century
Place of birth: France
France

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel


Note 

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Quote source: Gargantua and Pantagruel

Wikisource - Les Œuvres De Maitre François Rabelais (fr) 



Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.

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Translation

Translation

(French, German, Italian, Spanish)



French
Science sans conscience n'est que ruine de l'âme.
François Rabelais - Gargantua et Pantagruel

German
Wissenschaft ohne Gewissen bedeutet den Untergang der Seele.
François Rabelais - Gargantua und Pantagruel

Italian
Scienza senza coscienza non è che rovina dell'anima

Spanish
Ciencia sin conciencia no es más que ruina del alma.



See also 

See also...



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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
Alan Watts

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays



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Do not trouble yourself, make yourself simple.
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For souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
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'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
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Quotes for: science


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Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
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A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.
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Of all the human sciences, the science of man is the most worthy.
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Antisthenes used to say that the most useful science was to unlearn evil.
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Quotes for: consciousness


Quotes

Quotes for: consciousness


Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
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World history is the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
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Consciousness is a link between what was and what will be; a bridge between the past and the future.
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Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
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Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education / 






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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
François Rabelais / 





To laugh is proper to man.
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel / 





Hours were made for man, not man for hours.
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel / 





Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
François Rabelais / 





All things move onward to their term.
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel / 





Misery is the company of lawsuits.
François Rabelais







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