“They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.”
― Winter's Tale
― Winter's Tale
“I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of books most people read. Once you see that you lose all hope.”
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“From religion comes a man's purpose; from science, his power to achieve it. Sometimes people ask if religion and science are not opposed to one another. They are: in the sense that the thumb and fingers of my hand are opposed to one another. It is an opposition by means of which anything can be grasped.”
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“And how does God speak to you?"
"In the language of everything that is beautiful.”
― A Soldier of the Great War
"In the language of everything that is beautiful.”
― A Soldier of the Great War
“The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.”
― The Constitution of Liberty
― The Constitution of Liberty
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