"It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source."

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"It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source."

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"Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this - and out of nothing - can still count the hairs of my head."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"Though man needs to live to believe, he does not need to believe to live."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"You don't so much as become an atheist as find out that's what you are. There's no moment of conversion. You don't suddenly think 'I don't believe this anymore.' You essentially find you don't believe it."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"Shallan's mental image of Jasnah Kholin was of someone almost divine. It was, upon reflection, an odd way to regard a determined atheist."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

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"Never confuse belief with knowledge."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Mother Nature created God as a neurological anti-depressant sentiment, but Man tore that God apart into pieces and made citadels of differentiation out of them."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"When you allow your mind to ONLY have positive thoughts towards your desired outcome you are saying to the Universe that you are devoted to manifesting your dream."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"It is one thing to believe and another to know."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize."

First

"The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble nor the most terrible."

Life

"There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment."

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"The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today."

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"On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries."

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"An honest money system is the only alternative."

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"But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance."

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"Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful."

Nature

"Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today."

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"Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation."

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