The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
Some Thoughts Concerning EducationIn so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
Spinoza in der europäischen GeistesgeschichteBut one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.
Stranger in a Strange LandSometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have.
The Most Dangerous GameAnd it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them.
Music & SilencePanentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.
Man's Vision of God and the Logic of TheismIf you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
Letters to His Friends, Vol 2: Books 7-12The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
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