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Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous — reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.

— L. P. Jacks Religious Perplexities (1922)

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A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation.

Education through Recreation (1932)

"Spirit" is matter seen in a stronger light. What else did Malebranche mean when he spoke of "seeing all things in God"? Existence is a mystery because the light of it is inexhaustible.

Near the Brink: Observations of a Nonagenarian (1952)

Are not the richest and most significant experiences of man precisely those which are the least patient of verbal reproduction?

The Usurpation Of Language (1910)

To himself, he always appears to be doing both.

Education through Recreation (1932)

Better that the nation grow poor for a cause we can honor, than grow rich for an end that is unknown.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

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Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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