"The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past."

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Source : Isaiah Berlin (2014). “Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought”, p.387, Princeton University Press

Isaiah Berlin

#Past Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“My hope is in you, Lord. Be my refuge, for You are my strength.... Into Your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit. You have redeemed me, Lord, God of Truth.”
“Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.”
“It often requires more strength and judgment to resist than to embrace an opportunity. It is better to do nothing than to do other than well.”
“A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally prepared at maturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. . . . In so doing, it strikes a fatal blow at . . . the most demoralizing of all monopolies. . . educational superiority.”
“We write our own destiny ...we become what we do.”
“I have a real low tolerance for parasites, and you're so close to the limit that I'm already reaching for the flea powder.”

Source : Linda Howard (2012). “Shades Of Twilight”, p.222, Simon and Schuster
“In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.”
“The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.”

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