"There is no exit from the circle of one's beliefs."

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Source : Keith Lehrer (1978). “Knowledge”, Oxford University Press

Keith Lehrer

#Circles Quotes #Exit Quotes #Belief Quotes

“A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category â€” gentlemen masquerading as beasts?”
“With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.”

Source : Peter Weiss (2005). “The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume 1: A Novel”, p.60, Duke University Press
“It's not where we've been that matters to God. It's who we are becoming in Him.”
“I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.”

Source : "Patti Stanger Adoption: ‘Millionaire Matchmaker’ Plans To Adopt Child". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2012.
“But sometimes you have to wait for an answer to come to you. Especially when the questions are difficult ones.”

Source : Patrick Carman (2011). “Stargazer”, p.107, Scholastic Inc.
“I don't put myself under pressure.”
“For those of us who can't be active on the front lines - and this will be most of us - our job is to create a culture that will encourage and promote political resistance. The main tasks will be loyalty and material support.”

Source : Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay, Lierre Keith (2011). “Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet”, p.212, Seven Stories Press
“I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its face and see its wonders, but when I go down, there will be no child to carry my name, no family to mourn me save my comrades, no one to remember, no one to raise a marker over my cold bit of ground.”

Source : Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.243, Macmillan

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