"Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect."

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Source : Edgar Quinet (1845). “Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society”, p.87

Edgar Quinet

#Discovery Quotes #Wish Quotes #Orthodoxy Quotes

“I can be a very valuable friend to you, but you do not want me as an enemy.”
“I don't even know if I have the capacity for normal emotions or not because I haven't cried for a long time. You just stifle them for so long that maybe you lose them, partially at least. I don't know.”
“The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future.”
“Falling in love is easy, but somebody tell me how to stay there.”
“I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.”
“The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's.”
“The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.”
“Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.”

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