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Science is the last step in man's mental development and it may be regarded as the highest and most characteristic attainment of human culture.

— Ernst Cassirer An Essay on Man (1944)

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The facts of science always imply a theoretical, which means a symbolic, element.

An Essay on Man (1944)

Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe. But he must give up this vain pretense, this petty provincial way of thinking and judging.

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