"if you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the apparent truth divides into two opposing truths and then you have to try to reach beyond them to grasp the ultimate truth, their synthesis."

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Source : Susan Howatch, Bruce Johnson, Charles Adolph Huttar (2005). “Scandalous Truths: Essays by and about Susan Howatch”, p.81, Susquehanna University Press

Susan Howatch

#Wind Quotes #Land Quotes #Two Quotes

“So many of man's actions appear to have no immediate consequence but, concealed, do their work until finally all catches up and forms a complex web of cause and effect.”
“It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn't always better.”
“The world would be a much nicer place if people only used guns on themselves.”
“We have aspects in our music that refer to space, like Kometenmelodie, but we also have some very earthly aspects that are very direct and not from outer space but from inner space like from the human being and the body, and very close to every day life.”
“Everything pays for growing tame.”
“If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.”
“He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.”
“Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations.”

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