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“Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.”

Firsts Stills Wish Discovery Universal Orthodox Sooner Or Later Orthodoxy Sects New Discoveries

Book:Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society

Source: Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society

“the thing I would wish for anybody I loved would be the possibility of never coming to the end of discovery. I think it is what makes life worth living.”

Thinking Ends Would Be Wish Possibility Discovery Curiosity Worth Living Life Worth Living

Book:Joyce

Source: Joyce

“I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery.”

Wells Ends Wish Discovery Conquest Robbery

Book:The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776

Source: The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776

“One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission.”

Ifs Persons Has Beens Important Age Turns Wish Discovery Relation Method Horrible Awake Torture Existential Strict Intermission

Author:W. H. Auden