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That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most inexplicable that we may encounter. That mankind has in this sense been cowardly has done life endless harm; the experiences that are called "visions," the whole so-called "spirit-world," death, all those things that are so closely akin to us, have by daily parrying been so crowded out of life that the senses with which we could have grasped them are atrophied. To... Rainer Maria Rilke
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe. Thomas Huxley
There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books. George Santayana
It is strange,' pursued he, 'that while I love Rosomond Oliver so wildly-with all the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the object of which is exquisitely beautiful, graceful, and fascinating--I experience at the same time a calm, unwarped consciousness, that she would not make me a good wife; that she is not the partner suited to me; that I should discover this within a year after marriage; and that to twelve months' rapture would succeed a lifetime of regret. This I know. Charlotte Bronte
I believed, rather more accurately, that a work resolutely thought out and sought for in the hazards of the mind, systematically, and through a determined analysis of definite and previously prescribed conditions, whatever its value might be once it had been produced, did not leave the mind of its creator without having modified him, and forced him to recognize and in some way reorganize himself. I said to myself that it was not the accomplished work, and its appearance and effect in the... Paul Valery
The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived. Bill Bryson
...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved. Louisa May Alcott
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside. James Joyce
Neal A. Maxwell quote: "We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which..."
We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen. Neal A. Maxwell
You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with - at the end of it, you and I are just as stripped and homeless. And you and I are the last remembrance of all that immeasurable greatness which has been created in all the thousands of years between their time and ours, and it is in memory of all that vanished splendour that we live and love and weep and cling to one another. Boris Pasternak
So that the one road for which we now need God's leadership most of all is a road God, in His own nature, has never walked. But suppose God became a man... He could surrender His will, suffer and die, because He was a man... C. S. Lewis
Katharine Graham quote: "Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly..."
Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn. Katharine Graham
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable."
Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Neal A. Maxwell quote: "Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues..."
Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash. Neal A. Maxwell
No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you. George Eliot

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