"What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare stand too near the cross in case they got involved) into heroes who would stop at nothing? A swindle? Hallucination? Spooky nonsense in a darkened room? Or Somebody quietly doing what He said He'd do - walk right through death? What do you think?"

-- John Bertram Phillips

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“Imagine how terrifying it would be if we had to decide the beginnings of things for ourselves: as to what race we should belong, what sex, and all that, instead of placidly coming out of unconsciousness to find it all arranged!”

Source : Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”
“The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions.”
“The biggest thing about growing up in Canada is you know that Los Angeles and New York are not the only places in the world. They're not the only places where brilliant acting happens.”
“The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds about it.”
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”
“The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.”

Source : Hans-Georg Gadamer (2008). “Philosophical Hermeneutics”, p.65, Univ of California Press
“For me, the more I don't foolishly waste my life wishing for a better past the more free I am today to create, grow, and love.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.”

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