"What men want is not knowledge but certainty."

Philosophy, Knowledge, Certainty, Truth, Desire

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"War is only one facet of the larger problem of evil which has been with the human race since the beginning . . .This same evil tried to destroy the greatest human being who ever lived, nailing Him to a cross."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Heaven is a wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world!"

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"God does not want an apartment in our house. He claims our entire home from attic to cellar."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Thought, if I may put it, is the man behind the possession, appearance, things we like, things we hate and the very epitome of life."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"We should not covet or expect the praise of ungodly men . . . the very fact that they are inclined to persecute us is proof that we are “not of the world."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so frequently experience now. I'm really looking forward to that."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"It is what it is because you let it be so."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"I am the creation of love.I am the source of love.I am the beginning of love.I like to vanish in love."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"I believe there is an obedience to the Gospel, there is a self-denial and a bearing of the cross, if you are to be a follower of Christ. Being a Christian is a serious business."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"War grows out of ordinary human nature."

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"Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities."

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"Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy."

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"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

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"We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and the other which we practice but seldom preach."

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"In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private conversation he was wont to say that homicidal lunatics were well employed in killing each other, but that sensible men would keep out of their way while they were doing it. Fortunately this outlook, which is reminiscent of Bentham, has become rare in this age, which recognizes that heroism has a value independent of its utility. The Last Survivor of a Dead Epoch."

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"Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture."

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"A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known."

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"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change."

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"Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom."

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