We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to aflict the world so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully
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There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.Martin Buber
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
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God is the 'mysterium tremendum,' that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.
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Play is the exultation of the possible.
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I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.
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