But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. – George Eliot
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. – George Eliot
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. – George Eliot
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. – George Eliot
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed… And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. – Saint Augustine