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Letter "W" » wonder
«I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief»
«I like you, but I know you don't know it. I like you so much, I talk to everyone but you. And I wonder what you would think of this little number. I wonder what you would say if you knew.»
«God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
(
Statesman)
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About:
Death and dying,
God
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Keywords:
beyond,
Beyond Reason,
cease,
daily,
deity,
illumine,
illumined,
illumines,
personal,
radiance,
renewed,
renewing,
renews,
source,
steadies,
steady,
The Source,
wonder
«Philosophy begins with wonder»
«If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(
Novelist,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
argument,
away,
a hundred,
Christianity,
drift,
drifted,
drifts,
drift away,
examined,
examines,
faith,
had,
honest,
hundred,
lost,
many,
out to,
reasoned,
simply,
turn,
turning away,
turn out,
wonder
«Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
being,
Get Smart,
imbeciles,
mean,
People Like Us,
putting,
Putts,
really,
run,
run by,
smart,
smarted,
smarting,
smarts,
sometimes,
wonder
«It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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About:
Truth
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Keywords:
fiction,
fictions,
has,
it No,
make,
make sense,
sense,
sensed,
sense an,
sensing,
stranger,
Stranger than Fiction,
truth,
wonder
«Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(
Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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About:
Music
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Keywords:
actual,
as to,
dim,
dimmed,
dimming,
dims,
music,
secrets,
startle,
takes,
The Whisper,
whence,
whereto,
whispers,
wonder
«I like your silence, it the more shows off your wonder.»
«An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.»