"The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours."

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Source : Chauncey Wright (2000). “The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright”, p.282, A&C Black

Chauncey Wright

#Pain Quotes #Caring Quotes #Frustrated Quotes

“Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life.”
“The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.”
“Israelis must be encouraged to defeat the Palestinians.”

Source : "Daniel Pipes, Peacemaker?". Mother Jones, May 2003.
“A person is a process, one that leads to death...”
“The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.”

Source : Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”
“Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.”
“The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.”
“Enter into the promises of God. It is your inheritance. You will do more in one year if you are really filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in fifty years apart from Him.”

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