What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.
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MacDonald on Doubt
"Doubt," I said to myself, "may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing."
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Augustine on Seeing and Being
As for ourselves, we see the things you have made because they are. But they are because you see them. We see outwardly that they are and inwardly that they are good. But you saw them made when you saw that it was right to make them.
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El-ahrairah on Pity for the Ingratitude of Ignorance
I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.
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Adams on Animal Perception
Creatures that have neither clocks nor books are alive to all manner of knowledge about time and the weather; and about direction too, as we know from their extraordinary migratory and homing journeys. The changes in the warmth and dampness of the soil, the falling of the sunlight patches, the altering movement of the beans in the light wind, the direction and strength of the air currents along the ground – all these were perceived by the rabbit awake.