I May Climb Perhaps To No Great

I May Climb Perhaps To No Great Heights, But I Will Climb Alone.

The Insufferable Arrogance Of Human Beings To Think That Nature Was Made Solely For Their Benefit, As If It Was Conceivable That The Sun Had Been Set Afire Merely To Ripen Men's Apples And Head Their Cabbages.

A Man Contains All That Is Needed To Make Up A Tree; Likewise, A Tree Contains All That Is Needed To Make Up A Man. Thus, Finally, All Things Meet In All Things, But We Need A Prometheus To Distill It.

Even If A King Defeats His Enemy In Battle, That Still Doesn't Settle Anything. There Are Other, Less Numerous Armies Of Philosophers And Scientists, And Their Contests Determine The True Triumph Or Defeat Of Nations. One Scholar Is Matched With Another; One Creative Mind With Another; And One Judicious Temperament With His Counterpart. A Victory Won On That Field Counts For Three Won By Force Of Arms.

In It He Proves That All Things Are True And States How The Truths Of All Contradictions May Be Reconciled Physically, Such As For Example That White Is Black And Black Is White; That One Can Be And Not Be At The Same Time; That There Can Be Hills Without Valleys; That Nothingness Is Something And That Everything, Which Is, Is Not. But Take Note That He Proves All These Unheard-of Paradoxes Without Any Fallacious Or Sophistical Reasoning.