"From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds."

-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Truth Quotes #Creeds Quotes

“Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith.”
“Mankind is destined to step beyond his earthly bonds just as his ancestors once crawled out of the seas. Colonizing new worlds . . . the race will survive.”
“I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring - I despair of seeing an Abolition of the infernal trafic in Negroes - we must push that matter further on your side the water - I wish that a few well instructed Negroes could be sent among their Brethren in Bondage, for until they are enabled to take their own part nothing will be done.”
“I'm a pretty young person, but I think you need a little life experience to actually say something.”
“The harvest-home or supper is a thing of the past. To those who feel the fascination of the past this may appear sad, but it is not so really for, even while it existed, this surface goodwill was often an empty show.”

Source : Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”
“If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.”
“Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave”
“It seems to me the only pertinent question is: cui bono? It is clear that the size of the privileged strata as a percentage of the whole has grown significantly under historical capitalism. And for these people, the world they know is better on the whole than any their earlier counterparts knew.”

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