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wisdom true-life life-is
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full. Thomas Merton
wisdom prayer inspired
The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him.
wisdom culture study
Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune. Raymond Queneau
wisdom men effort
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius... Victor Hugo
wisdom hands monsters
We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts.
wisdom verbs
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
wisdom flower suffering
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
wisdom children keeping-secrets
No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
wisdom men animal
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
doubt serious ifs
There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth. Paul Tillich
doubt shadow
Doubt is faith's shadow. Jo Nesbo
doubt fields pioneers
Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
doubt mania
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts. Gustave Flaubert
doubt madmen causation
Materialists and madmen never have doubts. Gilbert K. Chesterton
doubt enlightenment goes-on
In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right method to tell him to go on doubting, to doubt a little more, to doubt every day newer and wilder things in the universe, until at last, by some strange enlightenment, he may begin to doubt himself.
doubt age care
These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution. John Dryden
doubt spread
Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly. John Maynard Keynes
doubt type raised
I wasn`t really raised to be the type of person to have doubts. John Malkovich