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Vinculums of the Nexus
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Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitas.
(Plurality should not be posited without necessity.)~William of Ockham -
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the
necessities.~Frank Lloyd Wright -
Thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
~Kahlil Gibran
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As God said to Adam on one of those favonian edenic days, "Pick a bone, any bone."
~Norah Labiner
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An open mind is not a mind devoid of opinion but one that is able to change opinion in the face of new evidence.
~Hugh Nibley
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When things that are of the greatest importance are passed over by the weak-minded men without even a thought, I want to see truth in all its bearings and hug it to my bosom. I believe all that God ever revealed, and I never hear of a man being damned for believing too much; but they are damned for unbelief.
~Joseph Smith
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Could you gaze into heaven five minutes, you would know more than you would by reading all that ever was written on the subject.
~Joseph Smith
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When you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon; (i.e.) those things that were presented unto your minds by the Spirit of God, will come to pass; and thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until you become perfect in Christ Jesus.
~Joseph Smith -
You are not as yet brought into as trying circumstances as were the ancient Prophets and Apostles. Call to mind Daniel, the three Hebrew children, Jeremiah, Paul, Stephen, and many others, too numerous to mention, who were stoned, sawn asunder, tempted, slain with the sword, and wandered about in sheep skins and goat skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented, of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and in mountains, and hid in dens, and caves of the earth; yet they all obtained a good report through faith; and amidst all their afflictions they rejoiced that they were counted worthy to receive persecution for Christ's sake.
~Joseph Smith
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We know not what we shall be called to pass through before Zion is delivered and established; therefore, we have great need to live near to God, and always be in strict obedience to all His commandments, that we may have a conscience void of offense toward God and man.
~Joseph Smith
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We consider that God has created man with a mind capable of instruction, and a faculty which may be enlarged in proportion to the heed and diligence given to the light communicated from heaven to the intellect; and that the nearer man approaches perfection, the clearer are his views, and the greater his enjoyments, till he has overcome the evils of his life and lost every desire for sin; and like the ancients, arrives at that point of faith where he is wrapped in the power and glory of his Maker and is caught up to dwell with Him. But we consider that this is a station to which no man ever arrived in a moment: he must have been instructed in the government and laws of that kingdom by proper degrees, until his mind is capable in some measure of comprehending the propriety, justice, equality, and consistency of the same.
~Joseph Smith
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Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation; for, from the first existence of man, the faith necessary unto the enjoyment of life and salvation never could be obtained without the sacrifice of all earthly things. It was through this sacrifice, and this only, that God has ordained that men should enjoy eternal life....
It is in vain for persons to fancy to themselves that they are heirs with those, or can be heirs with them, who have offered their all in sacrifice, and by this means obtain faith in God and favor with him so as to obtain eternal life, unless they, in like manner, offer unto him the same sacrifice, and through that offering obtain the knowledge that they are accepted of him.~Joseph Smith -
Such was and always will be the situation of the Saints of God. Unless they have an actual knowledge that the course they are pursuing is according to the will of God, they will grow weary in their minds and faint...For a man to lay down his all-his character and reputation, his honor and applause, his good name among men, his houses, his lands, his brothers and sisters, his wife and children and even his own life also, counting all things but filth and dross for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ-requires more than mere belief or supposition that he is doing the will of God. It requires actual knowledge, realizing that when their sufferings are ended, he will enter into eternal rest and be a partaker of the glory of God.
~Joseph Smith
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The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
~Albert Einstein
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While the first promptings of faith toward God may be the result of natural intuition, the later development will be largely the result of unprejudiced and prayerful investigation and search for truth.
~James Talmage
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If belief be a product of the mind, faith is of the heart; belief is founded on reason, faith largely on intuition.
~James Talmage
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One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.
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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
~Ludwig Wittgenstein
