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“Your Nephi is a Jew. And yet he speaks like a Christian, he lives like a Bedouin, and he behaves like an Arab.”
“The Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done.”
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“It is really true what philosophy tells us, that life must be understood backwards. But with this, one forgets the second proposition, that it must be lived forwards. A proposition which, the more it is subjected to careful thought, the more it ends up concluding precisely that life at any given moment cannot really ever be fully understood; exactly because there is no single moment where time stops completely in order for me to take position [to do this]: going backwards.”
― Journals and Papers
― Journals and Papers
“Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.”
― The Nicomachean Ethics
― The Nicomachean Ethics
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