“In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.”
“The essentials of being a person of my type lies precisely in what they think and how they think, not in what they do. Your thoughts shape you.”
“The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression”
“A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.”
“There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only successfully rid the world of gods but "bared the miracles." (That is, explained the miracles. - ed.) Oddly enough, we must be satisfied to acknowledge the "miracle" without there being any legitimate way for us to approach it . I am forced to add that just to keep you from thinking that -weakened by age-I have fallen prey to the clergy.”
“That little word 'we' I mistrust and here's why: No man of another can say, 'He is I.' Behind all agreement lies something amiss All seeming accord cloaks a lurking abyss.”
“He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss.”
“There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had allowed myself to pay attention to them.”
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