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Quotes from On Being a Real Person — Harry Emerson Fosdick

1878–1969 United States

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At very best, a person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

On Being a Real Person (1943)

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

On Being a Real Person (1943)

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man is his endowment with personal capacities. The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distances.

On Being a Real Person (1943)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Harry Emerson Fosdick (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.