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The ways of creation are wrapt in mystery. We may only marvel, and bow our head.
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Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty.
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Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust.
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I do not think that religion is the most important element. We are held together rather by a body of tradition, handed down from father to son, which the child imbibes with his mother's milk. The atmosphere of our infancy predetermines our idiosyncrasies and predilections.
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I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book.
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Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
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When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.
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If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck.
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It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.
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I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.
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I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.
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Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
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The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.
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It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.
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Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
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Don't wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle.
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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
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I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.
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If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
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The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power.
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The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.
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The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?
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Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.
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It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.