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Quote by Herbert Agar
Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles. - Herbert Agar

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles. – Herbert Agar

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Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes. – Herbert Agar

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Convictions are more dangerous enemies to truth than lies. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), “IX.Man by Himself,” Human, All-Too-Human

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An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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He who does not know how to believe, should not know. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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