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I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self. — D. H. Lawrence
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. — Abraham Lincoln
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. — Simone Weil
...A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the… — Edgar Allan Poe
I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will… — Friedrich Nietzsche
And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he… — Charles Dickens
I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead… — Charlotte Bronte
Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and… — Carl Jung
The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility… — Bertrand Russell
He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal. — Leo Tolstoy
As I get considerably beyond the biblical allotment of three score years and ten, I feel with increasing intensity that I can express my gratitude… — Norman Maclean
I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is… — Wystan Hugh Auden
… lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and … stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to… — Wassily Kandinsky
My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do… — William Shakespeare
People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity spring from insubordination,… — Soren Kierkegaard
one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment,… — Allen Ginsberg
A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer condemn or hate… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make… — Thomas a Kempis
My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of… — Conrad Veidt
Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world, men tell me.… — Soren Kierkegaard
Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of… — Arthur Koestler
The central problem of biological evolution is the nature of mutation, but hitherto the occurrence of this has been wholly refractory and impossible to influence… — Hermann Joseph Muller
The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men. — Karen Horney
If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted… — Martin Jacques
There is a number among us, young and old, of all sorts almost among us, that swarm up and down towns, and woods, and fields,… — Thomas Shepard

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