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Quotes from Life Is A Miracle : An Essay Against Modern Superstition — Wendell Berry

1934–2026 United States

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Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.

Life Is A Miracle : An Essay Against Modern Superstition (2000)

We are alive within mystery, by miracle.

Life Is A Miracle : An Essay Against Modern Superstition (2000)

When it becomes merely an intellectual "position" confronting what is not empirically known or knowable, then it becomes very quickly absurd, and also grossly desensitizing and false.

Life Is A Miracle : An Essay Against Modern Superstition (2000)

We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.

Life Is A Miracle : An Essay Against Modern Superstition (2000)

We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend what they love. To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

Life Is A Miracle : An Essay Against Modern Superstition (2000)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Wendell Berry (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.