"To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions."

-- Walter Pater

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“I just loved him and he loved me... He was a most humble man, the most decent man I've ever met in my life and he always looked for the best in people to find positives and he said something to me that always remained with me. He said if you believe in the fatherhood of God you must necessarily believe in the brotherhood of man, it follows necessarily and even though I left the church and was not religious, that truth remained with me.”
“There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him by such connections.”
“My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.”
“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others?”

Source : Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Vintage
“What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.”

Source : "Fictional character: Unicorn / Lady Amalthea". "The Last Unicorn", 1982.
“It is therefore essential to let the 'heart spirit' settle like calm water. Then it becomes a tranquil lake in which the sky is reflected, in which the face of Christ can be seen.”
“Nothing that rest on some contradictory basis shall succeed or last in the long run ("ne saurait rÃ©ussir ou durer, Ã la longue", Fr.); all that involve (or imply...) a contradiction is fatally destined, early or late, to disintegrate and disappear.”
“Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.”

Source : Lotte Lehmann (2013). “More Than Singing: The Interpretation of Songs”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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