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“ We perceive, as from a great distance, a thousand years filled with dim shapes of men moving blindly, performing strangely, in an unreal shadowy world. ”

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Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.

~ Carl Lotus Becker

Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.

~ Carl Lotus Becker

Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one generation is never entirely so to the next.

~ Carl Lotus Becker

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

~ Carl Lotus Becker