“Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.”
Stanisław Lem book The Star Diaries
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“Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness…Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile…Not a single one but has at some time wept.”
— H. G. Wells, book The Outline of History
Source: The Outline of History (1920), Ch. 40
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