"An infinite question is often destroyed by finite……" — Madeleine L'Engle
"An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy."
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324 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle
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I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A…
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To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be…
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A new year can begin only because the old year ends.
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Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief.…
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To be born is to start the journey towards death.
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Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.
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Don't be afraid..." We need this reassurance. Even for those of us who believe implicitly in angels, to be confronted…
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Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"
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There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but…
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As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of…
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When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation,…
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I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the…
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In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my…
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We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which…
— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
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Stimulate don't Annihilate.
— Lee Haney
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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army…
— Alfred Nobel
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What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be…
— Maria Montessori
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Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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People who make war in order to escape slavery may possibly win....This will doubtless bring death and suffering to thousands....But…
— Kenneth Roberts
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Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ that believed in different gods. They were…
— Tom Hanks
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If you aren’t hearing your inner voice, it could mean you’re overburdened or not stimulated enough, or that you’ve learned…
— Kelly Cutrone
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Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral…
— Frederick Douglass
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