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“There is something exceedingly improving to the mind in a contemplation of the Divinity. It is a subject so vast, that all our thoughts…

— J.I. Packer

“Are we labouring at some Work too vast for us to perceive? Are our passions and desires mere whips and traces by the help…

— Jerome K Jerome

“[...] the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely…

— René Descartes

Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.

— Herman Melville

Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to a lesser…

— Kallistos Ware

“the general effect of attempting things beyond us, even though we fail, is to enlarge and liberalize the mind.”

— Ann Shen

“When we observe how some people know how to manage their experiences--their insignificant, everyday experiences--so that they become an arable soil that bears fruit…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We are beginning to realize that even the most fortunate people are living far below capacity, and that most human beings develop not more…

— Julian Huxley

“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of thought, made…

— Friedrich von Schiller

“And when a mind is too deficient in understanding, the resulting gap is often filled with resentment. —”

— Timothy Zahn

“...there is no real advance in human reason, for what we gain in one direction we lose in another; for all minds start from…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau