Science and art, ... they seek the truth and the meaning of life, they seek God, [and] the soul, and when they are harnessed to passing needs and activities, ... then they only complicate and encumber life.

Anton Chekhov
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Aristotle said, The human being is a social animal. He must have people around him to have a life. Without people, he would have no life. But he must have more than people; he must also have things and his life would be incomplete if he did not have science and art.

Yet both science and art... They seek the truth and the meaning of life, they seek God, [and] the soul, and when they are harnessed to passing needs and activities,... then they only complicate and encumber life.

Source: Five Great Short Stories

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