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“Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.”

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Wilferd Peterson was a renowned author whose works spanned a variety of fields, including history, literature, and philosophy. He was born on August 21, 1900, and passed away on June 2, 1995. more

“O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge men's search to vaster issues.”

Men Mind May Made Ends Self Night Stars Issues Aim Deeds Invisible Miserable Generosity Persistence Urges Immortal Daring Sublime Scorn Pulse Choir Pierce Rectitude

Author:George Eliot

“From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.”

Men Moral Teach Lasting Motivated Certitude

Author:Joseph Heller

“Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.”

Difficult Difficulty Misery Pursuit Avoiding Pursuit Of Happiness Predicaments Attaining Happiness

Author:Michael Joseph Oakeshott

“Co-operation, like other difficult things, can be learned only by practice: and to be capable of it in great things, a people must be gradually trained to it in small. Now the whole course of advancing civilization is a series of such training.”

People Whole Courses Difficult Practice Civilization Capable Training Series Great Things Operations Difficult Things Advancing

Book:The London and Westminster Review

Source: The London and Westminster Review

“Writers always sound insufferably smug when they sit back and assert that their job is only to ask questions and not to answer them. But, in good part, it is true. And once you become committed to one particular answer, your freedom to ask new questions is seriously impaired.”

Jobs Asks Sound Answers Particular Committed Your Freedom

Author:David Hare

“If all the evidence put forward for the authenticity of religious teachings originates in the past, it is natural to look round and see whether the present, about which it is easier to form judgements, may not also be able to furnish evidence of the sort. If by this means we could succeed in clearing even a single portion of the religious system from doubt, the whole of it would gain enormously in credibility.”

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“Religion is the highest vanity.”

Highest Vanity

Author:Christian Friedrich Hebbel

“Suppose, however, that God did give this law to the Jews, and did tell them that whenever a man preached a heresy, or proposed to worship any other God that they should kill him; and suppose that afterward this same God took upon himself flesh, and came to this very chosen people and taught a different religion, and that thereupon the Jews crucified him; I ask you, did he not reap exactly what he had sown? What right would this god have to complain of a crucifixion suffered in accordance with his own command?”

People Men Giving Should Different Law Asks Taught Worship Jew Complaining Flesh Chosen Command Heresy Reap Crucifixion Different Religions

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

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