Abstract Truth Quotes

“...[E]ven yet I do not expect you to believe. It is so hard to accept at once any abstract truth, that we may doubt such to be possible when we have always believed the ‘no’ of it...”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I still don't understand, said Esther. How can I make myself immortal by taking Mr. Hazard's opinions?

Because then the truth is part of you! if I understand St. Paul, this is sound church doctrine, leaving out the personal part of the Trinity which Hazard insists on tacking to it.”
― Henry Adams, Esther