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Of all forms of mental activity, the most difficult to induce even in the minds of the young, who may be presumed not to have…

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...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of…
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will…
If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it…
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe…
The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is…
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a…
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of…
When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field…
No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is…

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Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love… — Anouk Aimee
Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds… — Charles Dickens
Did we believe a final Reckoning and Judgment; or did we think enough of what we do believe, we would allow more… — William Penn
Love is indeed heaven upon earth; since heaven above would not bo heaven without it; for where there is not love, there… — William Penn
O never star Was lost; here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a… — Robert Browning
From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The fiend with all his comrades Fell then from heaven above, Through as long as three nights and days, The angels form… — Caedmon
Of all forms of mental activity, the most difficult to induce even in the minds of the young, who may be presumed… — Arthur Koestler
Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road… — Robert Louis Stevenson
In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness. — William Wordsworth
Eyes like streams of melting snow, cold with the things she does not know. Heaven above and Hell beneath, liquid flames to… — Kiersten White
Yes, great God, these torrents of tears which flow down from my eyes announce thy divine presence in my soul. This heart… — Jean Baptiste Massillon

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