"Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics."

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Source : Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.159, tredition

Lafcadio Hearn

#Tolerance Quotes #Matter Quotes #Ethics Quotes

“When I look at where Iâ€™ve been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.”
“I was feeling safe. Not the kind of safe where you know there are still bad things howling outside the door waiting to get in. No, it was the kind of safe where you sink down in your bed at the end of the day and know you can go to sleep and everything is going to be the same tomorrow.”
“Well, it's such a record that you can only compare it with Bob Beamon's long-jump world record set in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico. At that time it seemed that it would never be broken. Tendulkar's 50 Test centuries is one such records which doesn't look like being surpassed”
“Go where thou wilt, thou canst not go out of thy Father's ground.”

Source : Thomas Boston (1840). “A soliloquy on the art of man-fishing. Repr”, p.23
“Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.”
“There's a space at the bottom of an exhale, a little hitch between taking in and letting out that's a perfect zero you can go into. There's a rest point between the heart muscle's close and open - an instant of keenest living when you're momentarily dead. You can rest there.”
“Your contribution is the energy produced in the doing of something, not the end product.”
“I don't want you to cook my bread, I don't want you to make my bed. I don't want you to because I'm sad and blue, I just want to make love to you.”

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