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Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the es

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order. – Johan Huizinga

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These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution. – Johan Huizinga

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Faith
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Johan Huizinga
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Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning. – Johan Huizinga

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Age
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I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients. – Gustave Courbet

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Ive always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it. – Peter Jennings

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Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next. – Charles Simmons

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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