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All things change,—creeds and philosophies and outward systems,—but God remains!

— Mary Augusta Ward Robert Elsmere (1888)

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Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system!

Robert Elsmere (1888)

There is nothing more startling in human relations than the strong emotions of weak people.

The History of David Grieve (1891)

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Robert Elsmere (1888)

But the mind travels far—and mysteriously—in sleep.

A Writer's Recollections (1918)

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

A Writer's Recollections (1918)

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

Martin Buber Power and Love (1926)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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