"Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it."

-- Andre Malraux

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“The expenses of the paperwork and court fees involved in pursuing the appeal through the courts were not too high. In fact, as I recall, removing prayer from U.S. public schools cost less than $20,000... no Christian organization filed a brief in support of our opponents.”
“The final awakening is the embracing of the darkness into the light. That means embracing our humanity as well as our divinity. What we go from is being born into our humanity, sleep walking for a long time, until we awaken and start to taste our divinity. And then want to finally get free. We see as long as we grab at our divinity and push away our humanity we arenâ€™t free. If you want to be free, you canâ€™t push away anything. You have to embrace it all. Itâ€™s all God.”
“Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.”
“Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie â€“ or the gods, for that matterâ€¦Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness that can see naught above or beyond itselfâ€¦the day draws nigh when Faerie shall fade, the Erlking himself shrink to a woodland sprite and then to nothing, and the gods go under. And the worst of it is, I cannot believe it wrong that the immortals will not live forever.”
“Physics is simple, but subtle.”
“Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.”
“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
“Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.”

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