"If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way."
"Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth."
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Source: Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing by Larry Chang, (p. 55), 2006.
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