“If we submit everything to reason, our religion will have no mysterious and supernatural element. If we offend the principles of reason, our religion will be absurd and ridiculous.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new...”

― George Orwell, 1984

“only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn’t exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“grief boundeth where it falls, not with the empty hollowness, but weight.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.”

― Carl Sagan, Contact

“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason

“Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.”

― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order. She prays now, she says, that I may learn in my own life and away from home and friends what the heart is and what it feels. Amen. So be it.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“For even as it is better to enlighten than merely to shine, so is it better to give to others the fruits of one's contemplation than merely to contemplate.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

“Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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