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“someday we will regard our children not as creatures to manipulate or to change but rather as messengers from a world we once deeply knew, but which we have long since forgotten, who can reveal to us more about the true secrets of life, and also our own lives, than our parents were ever able to.”

Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.”

God Secret Knowledge Wonderful Share Taught Bounty

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.”

Men Made Ends Secret Knowledge Seeing Infinite Extremes Infinity Incapable Comprehending

Book:Pascal's Pensees

Source: Pascal's Pensees

“Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.”

Knows Life Real Wisdom Reality Happens America Ability Levels Secret Knowledge Power Acceptance Communication Mass Communicate Unconscious Acceptable Mass Communication

Book:The Essential Ginsberg

Source: The Essential Ginsberg

“I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret; The code of night tapped on my tongue; What had been one was many sounding minded.”

Night Language Secret Knowledge Learning Tongue Code Verbs

Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“Yet still, there are those special secret moments in our lives, when we smile unexpectedly-when all our forces are resolved. A woman can often see these moments in us, better than a man, better than we ourselves, even. When we know these moments, when we smile, when we are not on guard at all-these are the moments when our most important forces show themselves; whatever it is you are doing at such a moment, hold on to it, repeat it-for that certain smile is the best knowledge that we ever have of what our hidden forces are, and where they lie, and how they can be loosed.”

Knows Men Stills Important Moments Shows Lying Certain Force Secret Knowledge Our Lives Special Repeats Moments In Our Lives

Book:The Timeless Way of Building

Source: The Timeless Way of Building