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perhaps the problem of evil is a human problem, one of an egotistical mind-set, an anthropocentric bent in our thinking and perspective.


Jacob M. Held

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JACOB BOEHME To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasur...
JACOB BRONOWSKI Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic ...
JACOB BRONOWSKI It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; th...
JACOB BRONOWSKI Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament an...
JACOB BRONOWSKI I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts an...
JACOB BRONOWSKI You are at enmity with yourself.
JACOB BOEHME We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
JACOB BRONOWSKI The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes ...
JACOB BRONOWSKI Think that day lost whose (low) descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done. [Lat....
JACOB BOBART There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good...
JACOB DEGROM My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandm...
JACOB ROTHSCHILD The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deepe...
JACOB BRONOWSKI The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
JACOB RIIS My mum is the funniest and sweetest person I know; my sister's like my best friend, so it's ...
JACOB WHITESIDES Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our life...
JACOB BRONOWSKI I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without a...
JACOB RIIS