The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
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If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
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