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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Henri Bergson, Matter And Memory.

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I am I, and I wish I weren't.

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World.

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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Aldous Huxley, Do what you will: Twelve essays.

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It should be said at once that the completely profane world, the wholly desacralized cosmos, is a recent discovery in the history of the human spirit…for the nonreligious men of the modern age, the cosmos has become opaque, inert, mute; it transmits no message, it holds no cipher.

Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion.

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To whatever degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who has made his choice in favor of a profane life never succeeds in completely doing away with religious behavior.

Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion.

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Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.

Paul Tillich, The Courage To Be.

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It is the expression of the anxiety of meaninglessness and of the attempt to take this anxiety into the courage to be as oneself.

Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be.

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It is not enough to know the language; one must also acquire some feeling for an author.

Walter Kaufmann, Genealogy Of Morals; Editor’s Introduction.

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Intellect is not wisdom.

Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society.

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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Thomas Sowell, Source Unlisted.

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The courage to die is the test of the courage to be.

Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be.

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Those who want to abolish all hardships because they themselves are not up to them are like sick people who wish to abolish bad weather—rain, no matter what the consequences might be to others and to the earth generally.

—almost as stupid as would be the desire to abolish bad weather—say, from pity for poor people.

Friedrich W. Nietzsche, Ecce Homo; Why I Am A Destiny.

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The courage to die is the test of the courage to be.

Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be.

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Zarathustra, who was the first to grasp that the optimist is just as decadent as the pessimist, perhaps more harmful, says: “Good men never speak the truth”.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo; Why I Am A Destiny: Quoted From Zarathustra III, “On Old And New Tablets,” section 7.

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The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.

Paul Tillich, Source Unlisted.

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Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.

Paul Tillich, The Eternal Now.

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The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich, The Courage To Be.