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The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith. – Michael Polanyi

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Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence. – Michael Polanyi

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Intelligence
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I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell. – Michael Polanyi

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communication
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Ive always thought that as long as directors and casting directors dont see me as just Harry Potter, Ill be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. Theyre letting me prove that Im serious about this. – Daniel Radcliffe

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Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling. – Dorothy Day

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Faith in Gods revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo. – Karl Barth

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In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions. – Emanuel Swedenborg

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