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Bryce Courtenay

"In this world are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation. The searcher after truth must search with humanity. Ruthless logic is the sign of a limited mind. The truth can only add to the sum of what you know, while a harmless mystery left unexplored often adds to the meaning of life. When a truth is not so important, it is better left as a mystery."

Source : "My mysterious, inspiring J. J. Abrams Mystery Box" by John Baichtal, www.wired.com. July 14, 2009.

Bryce Courtenay

#Men Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know whats around the corner.”
“The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, weâ€™ll have more middle-class people. But homeownership and college arenâ€™t causes of middle-class status, theyâ€™re markers for possessing the kinds of traits â€” self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc. â€” that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class. Subsidizing the markers doesnâ€™t produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them.”
“The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything.”
“Everybody's family has problems.”
“The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.”
“My dad always said to go for my hobby and used to commend me for my excellent judgement so i try to do the similar for my children.”
“Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.”

Source : Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.255, Ballantine Books
“Since no man ever can, or could, live by himself and for himself alone, the destinies of thousands of other people were bound to be affected, some remotely, but some very directly and near-at-hand, by my own choices and decisions and desires, as my own life would also be formed and modified according to theirs.”

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