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“The pride of young men requires that they seem wise, despite their inexperience, and the only way to appear all-knowing without going to the tedium of acquiring knowledge, is to hold all knowledge in weary-seeming contempt.”
― Awake in the Night
― Awake in the Night
“Human nature, for better or worse, always eventually comes to the fore again. And human nature likes and needs stories that are stories.”
― Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth
― Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth
“Here is our first rule: Any life you create is yours, and must be cared for. No matter how humble or small, it is still yours, and you must answer for it.”
― Orphans of Chaos
― Orphans of Chaos
“Pain has a funny way of focusing the mind. Only what hurts matters.”
― Orphans of Chaos
― Orphans of Chaos
“The wisdom of what a person says is in direct proportion to his progress in learning the holy scriptures--and I am not speaking of intensive reading or memorization, but real understanding and careful investigation of their meaning. Some people read them but neglect them; by their reading they profit in knowledge, by their neglect they forfeit understanding.”
― On Christian Doctrine
― On Christian Doctrine
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