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“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”
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“It must be recognized that man in his limited and relative earthly life is capable of bringing about the beautiful and the valuable only when he believes in another life, unlimited, absolute, eternal. That is a law of his being. A contact with this mortal life exclusive of any other ends in the wearing-away of effective energy and a self-satisfaction that makes one useless and superficial. Only the spiritual man, striking his roots deep in infinite and eternal life, can be a true creator. But Humanism denied the spiritual man, handed over the eternal to the temporal, and took its stand by the natural man within the limited confines of the earth.”
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“It is noteworthy that at a time when every religious sanction of authority has vanished, we live in a very authoritarian epoch.”
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“Newt Scamander: My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.”
― Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay
― Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”
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