Education, learning, epistemology

"Man doth usurp all space, Stares thee, in rock, bush, river, in the face. Never thine eyes behold a tree; 'Tis no sea thou seest in the sea, 'Tis but a disguised humanity. To avoid thy fellow, vain thy plan; All that interests a man, is man."

We are as solid as most truly false things are—a dance of particles in space. Only the things no one can touch are true, as you should know by now.

It was of final importance to Dickens that poor men could amuse themselves and could amuse him. He troubled little about the mere education of that life; he declared two essential things about it—that it was laughable, and that it was livable.

because of course he is conscious of his own superiority, as we all are, and very naturally—that he took to scorning everything, and became a genius;