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The human mind loves the bondage of words and is apt, when freed from one form of their tyranny, to set up another more oppressive than the last.

— L. P. Jacks The Usurpation Of Language (1910)

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

Religious Perplexities (1922)

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)

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