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February 7, 2020 § Leave a comment
“There are in fact four very significant stumbling-blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.” — Roger Bacon
“Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.” — G. W. F. Hegel
“You touch on a disheartening truth. People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.” — James Branch Cabell
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May 9, 2014 § Leave a comment
“Just as the water of the streams we see is small in amount compared to that which flows underground, so the idealism which becomes visible is small in amount compared with what men and women bear locked in their hearts … To unbind what is bound, to bring the underground waters to the surface: mankind is waiting and longing for such as can do that.” — Albert Schweitzer
“Trapped dreams must die.” — James Branch Cabell
“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.” — Nikos Kazantzakis, epitaph 
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