"Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian

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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"I teach that all men are mad."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"The man is either mad, or he is making verses."

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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

"I teach that all men are mad."

"The man is either mad, or he is making verses."

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

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"It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics."

"But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object."

"The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all."

"Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics."

"The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction."

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"Metaphysics is a science."

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