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Men in all ways are better than they seem.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.
— Albert Camus
Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.
— DH Lawrence
Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
— Henry David Thoreau
When what you see in your imagination is bigger than what you see in your reality, you will begin to attract the ideas, opportunities, resources, faith and relationships necessary to pursue those dreams.
— Terri Savelle Foy
We as born-again believers have to get our priorities realigned and realize our political alliances are not with the Democrats or the Republicans. As Christians, we should be monarchists. Our allegiance is to Christ the King. He will come back and fix all this; we do not need to allow anger to fester in our hearts like a disease. We're not even supposed plant roots in this life. Our home is a heavenly one. Our reality is an eternal reality.
— Terry James
There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
— Theodore Roosevelt
We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Again, it is self-evident that truth exists. For truth exists if anything at all is true, and if anyone denies that truth exists, he concedes that it is true that it does not exist, since if truth does not exist it is then true that it does not exist.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
nothing can be known, save what is true;
— St. Thomas Aquinas
For this reason truth is defined by the conformity of intellect and thing; and hence to know this conformity is to know truth.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
To see this we must learn that some have said that relation is not a reality, but only an idea. But this is plainly seen to be false from the very fact that things themselves have a mutual natural order and habitude.
— St. Thomas Aquinas