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Quote by Walter Bagehot

“To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.”

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Walter Bagehot was an English journalist and social philosopher, best known for his editorial role at The Economist. His writings on economics, finance, and political institutions have had a profound impact on the field. more

“The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.”

People World Wells Has Beens Self Seems Truth Lying Perfect Generations Mass Ideals Victim Slave Rounds Tyranny Flats Speakers Initials Lunatic Webs Of Lies

Author:Donald James

“There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin.”

Ifs Should May Truth Found Teaching Divine Submit Reserves Objections Readiness Candor

Book:An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice: With an Account of the Trial of Jesus

Source: An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice: With an Account of the Trial of Jesus

“We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence." There is a "tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think that the truth is given by consent or by what we want. The question arises: does "the" truth really exist? What is "the" truth? Can we know it? Can we find it?”

Thinking Knows Want Believe Doe Truth Age Given Existence Truth Is Arise Tendencies Consent Skeptical

Author:Pope Francis

“We live in an age where truth really doesn't matter anymore.”

Matter Truth Age

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history.”

Happens Truth Divine Promise Truth Is Notion Scripture Fulfillment Abstract Formulas Timeless Static

Book:Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion

Source: Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion

“The law of correspondence says your outer world is a mirror of your inner world. Your outer world corresponds to your inner world. Your outer world of your relationships-especially with your children and spouse-simply corresponds to how you feel about yourself, how you're doing”

World Feels Children Law Mirrors Our Children Your Children About Yourself Ceo Spouse How You Feel Inner World Correspondence Outer Worlds