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The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
Ideas move in cycles of judgment: what one era's thinkers believed is ridiculed by the next, while notions once dismissed as foolish may later be celebrated as wise. The speaker's point is that intellectual fashions are unstable, and today's certainty may become tomorrow's embarrassment.
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