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"Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer."
"Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions."
"I believe the greatest achievements of your life lie ahead of you."
"Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler."
"At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd."
"The essentials of being a person of my type lies precisely in what they think and how they think, not in what they do. Your thoughts shape you."
"I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values. I am not thinking so much of the dangers with which technical progress has directly confronted mankind, as of the stifling of mutual human considerations by a 'matter-of-fact' habit of thought which has come to lie like a killing frost upon human relations. Without 'ethical culture' there is no salvation for humanity."
"In the middle of difficulties lie opportunities."
"There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only successfully rid the world of gods but "bared the miracles." (That is, explained the miracles. - ed.) Oddly enough, we must be satisfied to acknowledge the "miracle" without there being any legitimate way for us to approach it . I am forced to add that just to keep you from thinking that -weakened by age-I have fallen prey to the clergy."
"Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth."
"... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere."
"The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression"
"The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation."
"Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world."
"It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world."
"Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct."
"The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory."
"The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape"
"Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie."
"True beauty lies deep within. No matter what you look like on the outside, if you know you are beautiful, nothing can change that."
