Edmund Burke — "They who are in love with practice without theory are like the sailor who boards…"
They who are in love with practice without theory are like the sailor who boards ship without rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Date: 1757
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