"Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the stain from my coat."

-- Meher Baba

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“The belief in God is not therefore based on the perception of design in nature. Belief in design in nature is based upon the belief in God. Things are as they are whether there is a God or not. Logically, to believe in design one must start with God. He, or it, is not a conclusion but a datum. You may begin by assuming a creator, and then say he did this or that; but you cannot logically say that because certain things exist, therefore there is a God who made them. God is an assumption, not a conclusion. And it is an assumption that explains nothing.”
“It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.”

Source : Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur (Illustrated): Historical Novel - A Tale of the Christ”, p.256, e-artnow
“What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?”
“New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.”
“What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.”
“That people equate being girlie with being nonthreatening â€¦ I mean, I can't think of a more blatant example of playing into exactly the thing that we're trying to fight against. I can't be girlie? I think the fact that people are associating being girlie with weakness, that needs to be examined. I don't think that it undermines my power at all.”
“Those activities at which you excel with no effort at all those are the ones you ought to pursue to the detriment of others.”

Source : "A Century of Enthusiasm". Book by Carson Cistulli, 2007.
“Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.”

Source : "Athenaeum" magazine, #366, 1798.

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