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Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. Thomas Aquinas | top
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She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit. Sri Aurobindo | top
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind. Francis Bacon | top
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A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man. Cyrano de Bergerac | top
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What is history but a fable agreed upon? Napoleon Bonaparte | top
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Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace. Alexis Carrel | top
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. Gilbert K. Chesterton | top
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Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. Charles Caleb Colton | top
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There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it. Joseph Conrad | top
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It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. Irwin Edman | top
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. William Feather | top
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Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind. Marie de France | top
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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. Elbert Hubbard | top
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Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. Hypatia | top
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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune. James Weldon Johnson | top
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We have been a fabless semiconductor company for a number of years now. David Milne | top
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I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy. Alison Moyet | top
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The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself. Ramakrishna | top
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I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York. Geraldo Rivera | top
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A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am. Edmond Rostand | top
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I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play. Vincent Schiavelli | top
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Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not yet have the four children I later had. I must add I also gave him a certain taste for food. Georges Simenon | top
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From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own. Alfred de Vigny | top
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Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church. Robert Anton Wilson | top
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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break. Jeanette Winterson | top
