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“We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 273

“It is the business of culture to make us able to consider with intelligent interest all real opinions, even those we do not and can not accept.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 229

“In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 208

“To view an object in the proper light we must stand away from it. The study of the classical literatures gives the aloofness which cultivates insight. In learning to live with peoples and civilizations that have long ceased to be alive, we gain a vantage point, acquire an enlargement and elevation of thought, which enable us to study with a more impartial and liberal mind the condition of the society around us.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 106

“It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 269