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“What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?”

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Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, and writer whose works have had a profound impact on subsequent philosophy, literature, and thought. His ideas revolve around concepts such as the 'will to power', the 'Übermensch', and the 'eternal recurrence'. more

“It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They call for one another. Wisdom without science is unable to penetrate the full sapiential meaning of the created and the material cosmos. Science without wisdom leaves man enslaved to a world of unrelated objects in which there is no way of discovering (or creating) order and deep significance in man's own pointless existence. (p. 4)”

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Author:Thomas Merton

“Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in the smoke of confabulation. There can be no peace on earth without the kind of inner change that brings man back to his "right mind." p. 31”

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Book:Gandhi on Non-violence

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68”

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Author:Thomas Merton

“Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38”

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Author:Thomas Merton

“He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself.”

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Book:Politically Correct Bedtime Stories

Source: Politically Correct Bedtime Stories

“The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.”

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“Enough no more; Tis not so sweet now as it was before.”

Enough Sweet Twelfth Night Important

Author:William Shakespeare

“Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.”

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Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“The emperor is naked!" The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted: "No, he isn't. The emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!”

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Book:Politically Correct Bedtime Stories

Source: Politically Correct Bedtime Stories

“Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.”

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Book:8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an

Source: 8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an

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