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Book cover for The Religious Sense: New Revised Edition
A sane person, however, would want to know about the fact, to know what it is, and only then could also think it.
Paul
This is backwards of course. Reality does not give up its secrets easily and there is great need of honest inquiring thought to approach them.
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Emil M. Cioran
“The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.”
Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

G.K. Chesterton
“A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”
G.K. Chesterton, The G.K. Chesterton Collection [34 Books]

Niels Bohr
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
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Max Brand
“First, the weather got hotter every day, and the hay press broke down every day. Second, the boss fell in love with Marian Wray, and the hay press broke down every day. Third, inside of forty-eight hours everybody on that crew hated everybody else, and the hay press broke down every day. Fourth, and most important of all, the hay press broke down every day.”
Max Brand, The Oath of Office: A Western Trio

“I think the greater danger is that those who think they understand the process [of overcoming our attachments] are likely to try to make it happen on their own by engaging in false austerities and love-denying self-deprivations. They will not wait for God's timing; they will rush ahead of grace. I have seen it happen when ascetic practices have become overinstitutionalized, and I have engaged in it myself when I thought I could engineer my own salvation. It does not work.”
Gerald G. May, Addiction and Grace: Exploring the Psychology of Addiction, the Power of Spirituality, and the Path to Freedom Through Contemplative Practices

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