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“Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.”

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A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem.…

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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

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“The atheist relies not on an experience but on an idea, or pseudo idea, of God: if God existed, He would have such and…

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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

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But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

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... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

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You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.

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On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

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I not only have a body; I am this body.

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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.

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Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle…

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