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Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec Unkempt Thoughts (1957)

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Do not expect too much of the end of the world.

Foucault's Pendulum (1989)

The window on the world can be covered by a newspaper.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

Unkempt Thoughts (1957)

The richer your imagination, the poorer you feel.

Those who are ahead of their time often have to wait for it in uncomfortable quarters.

Power for the World (2010)

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

Basil of Caesarea

Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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