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“You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
― The Abolition of Man
― The Abolition of Man
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
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