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"A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility."
"The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things."
"Nobody can imagine how nothing could turn into something. Nobody can get an inch nearer to it by explaining how something could turn into something else. It is really far more logical to start by saying 'In the beginning God created heaven and earth' even ifyou only mean 'In the beginning some unthinkable power began some unthinkable process.' For God is by its nature aname of mystery, and nobody ever supposed that man could imagine how a world was created any more than he couldcreate one. But evolution really is mistaken for explanation. It has the fatal quality of leaving on many minds the impression that they do understand it and everything else."
"Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written."
"Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say."
"That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child."
"When Nietszche says, "A new commandment I give to you,be hard" he is really saying, "A new commandment I give to you, be dead." Sensibility is the definition oflife."
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