“The Devil is an echo
Of search unsatisfied.”
Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet
Source: Fortunatus the Pessimist (1892), Fortunatus in Act I, sc. iii; p. 35.
“Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.”
— H. G. Wells, book Crux Ansata
Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church (1943)
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