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“The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.”

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Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“Immediate knowledge tells us only that God is, not what he is. But if God is not an empty Being beyond the stars, he must be present in the communion of human spirits, and, in his relation to these, he is the One Spirit who pervades reality and thought. Hence there can be no final separation between our immediate consciousness of him and our mediated knowledge of reality.”

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Book:Typical Modern Conceptions of God: Or, The Absolute of German Romantic Idealism and of English Evolutionary Agnosticism, with a Constructive Essay

Source: Typical Modern Conceptions of God: Or, The Absolute of German Romantic Idealism and of English Evolutionary Agnosticism, with a Constructive Essay

“And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.”

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Book:Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.”

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Book:The Importance of Living

Source: The Importance of Living

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