"All knowing that goes beyond the immediate experience of the moment is a matter of faith."

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Source : Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.88, Transaction Publishers

Egon Friedell

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“Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.”
“Tom Tom Club has a whole different attitude and approach, not just musically but in performance. Some people said they liked it.”
“I'm going to get you a broken alarm clock so you'll get up in the morning.”

Source : "The Osbournes". TV Series 2002–2005,
“Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.”
“My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp and not with that of an obedient, disciplined and regimented soldier.”
“Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?”

Source : Michael Cunningham (2010). “By Nightfall: A Novel”, p.70, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“In wartime we provide truth with a bodyguard of lies because it is so precious.”
“The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.”

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