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“You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good. Perhaps I’m not their dead one back, but I’m something almost better to them; an ideal shaped by their minds.”

“We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated outflinging of desire, if religion was no more than self-delusion, what good was life? Faith had always given us answers to all things. But it all went down the drain with Freud and Darwin. We were and still are a lost people.”

“Anything that’s strange is no good to the average American. If it doesn’t have Chicago plumbing, it’s nonsense.”

“It is good to renew one’s wonder,” said the philosopher. “Space travel has again made children of us all.”