Excerpts of Citations
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Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation; for, from the first existen...
~Joseph Smith
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Such was and always will be the situation of the Saints of God. Unless they have an actual knowledge that the course they are pursuing is according to the will of God, they will grow weary in their...
~Joseph Smith
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The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
~Albert Einstein
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While the first promptings of faith toward God may be the result of natural intuition, the later development will be largely the result of unprejudiced and prayerful investigation and search for tr...
~James Talmage
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If belief be a product of the mind, faith is of the heart; belief is founded on reason, faith largely on intuition.
~James Talmage
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One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.
~Joseph Smith
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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the pr...
~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
~Ludwig Wittgenstein