“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)
“The Devil is an echo
Of search unsatisfied.”
Source: Fortunatus the Pessimist (1892), Fortunatus in Act I, sc. iii; p. 35.
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