"When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education"

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Source : James McCosh (1875). “Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics”, p.340

James McCosh

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“First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. & And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl.”
“When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.”
“A happy family is but an ealier heaven.”
“Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night of it. There is the forgetfulness and the loss of identity. The spirit, even as the body, is unstrung and burst and scattered. One goes down to death, and it leaves a mark on one forever.”

Source : "Space Chantey" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 2), 1968.
“Ya know it's funny, what's happening to us. Our lives have become digital. Our friends, now virtual. And, anything you could ever wanna know is just a click away. Experiencing the world through second hand information isn't enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it. We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self-discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.”

Source : "Snowboarder Travis Rice". Interview with Fitz Cahall, www.nationalgeographic.com. November 9, 2011.
“The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.”
“We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of heredity, development and disease. This concentration is made possible by the common function of nucleic acids as the molecular midwife of all reproductive particles. Indeed it is the nucleic acids which, in spite of their chemical obscurity, are giving to biology a unity which has so far been lacking, a chemical unity.”
“Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldnt do.”

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