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But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I mu...

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[God says] Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehens...

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When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of...

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all i...

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Religion is the sense of comprehension of the totality of existence.

Because we want to be inwardly secure, we are constantly seeking methods and means for this security...

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The only thing that interests the physicist is finding out on what assumptions a framework of things...

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Thus the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new master, and whispering in h...

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Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which apprec...

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Never in my life had I felt so tangibly and with such astonishment that hate, by passing successivel...

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I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'...

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Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.--"Wanda

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can unders...

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Paulo FreireWe Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutc...

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We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as th...

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Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. They do not learn this by learning. They do not ...

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Love is very important, nurse Igor. Love is a gateway emotion. Without it, you cannot fully comprehe...

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it has to be emphasized that if the pain were readily describable most of the countless sufferers fr...

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William StyronDarkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the m...

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