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"We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves."
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"When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less."
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"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."
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"How many times can one have a heart attack within a week?"
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"Knowledge will help you to solve any problem."
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"In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the aspirations hidden deepest within me to the completely exterior vision of the horizon which I had, at the bottom of the garden, before my eyes, what was first in me, innermost, the constantly moving handle that controlled the rest, was my belief in the philosophical richness and beauty of the book I was reading, and my desire to appropriate them for myself, whatever that book might be."
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"Getting an education is not only a matter of checking the boxes as your life progresses, it is a gift which can enrich every aspect of your world."
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"Knowledge is knowledge whether it teaches you construction or destruction."
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"Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind."
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"I don't want to believe. I want to know."
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"My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way."
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"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures."
Joy
"We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves."
Knowledge
"Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason."
Reason
"The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false."
Faith
"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."
Friendship
"Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient."
Nature
"Well-ordered self-love is right and natural."
Right
"Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them."
Virtue
"The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness."
God
"Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good."
Evil
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