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Only Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
- The only obligation I recognize is to say what I believe to be true [ ] and to say it with kindness. I believe that…
- The Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration.…
- There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse…
- I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or…
- --"There is no justice in love...it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality... the eternal breaking in on the the temporal.
- Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had…
- To think that only faultless people are worthwhile seems like an incredible exclusion of almost everything of deep value in the human saga. Sometimes I…
- Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us, and walk too…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle