"This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily death. It is the willingness to embrace the fundamental bewilderment of a finite, fallible creature as the basis for leading a life that no longer clings to the superficial consolations of certainty."

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Source : Stephen Batchelor (2010). “Confession of a Buddhist Atheist”, p.74, Spiegel & Grau

Stephen Batchelor

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“The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public: to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press: but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.”

Source : Sir William Blackstone, Joseph Chitty, Edward Christian, John Eykyn Hovenden, Thomas Lee (1861). “Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books, with an analysis of the work”
“Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them.”
“We run down the right fork, Manchee at our heels, the night and a dusty road stretching out in front of us, an army and a disaster behind us, me and Viola, running side by side.”
“You are all stardust.”
“Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired, long-awaited Spring.”
“I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name”
“I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.”
“For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status.”

Source : Kenneth Burke (1962). “A grammar of motives, and A rhetoric of motives”

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