“I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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“And for morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Oh! love! . . . That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.”

― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“the history of science . . . teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding, learning from our mistakes, an asymptotic approach to the Universe, but with the proviso that absolute certainty will always elude us.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

“Having said this, I still believe there are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“If one had to fill in, little by little, the gap between day and night, it would take an eternity to do it. But the sun rises and the darkness is dispelled—a moment is sufficient to overcome an infinite distance.”

― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

“A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! alas! she must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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