"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."
-Soren Kierkegaard
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"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.“
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"The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you."
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"People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something."
-Soren Kierkegaard
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"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."
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"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor."
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"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."
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"Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!"
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"There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature."
-Charles Eastman
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