There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter
Alfred Russel WallaceI spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
Alfred Russel WallaceTruth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
Alfred Russel Wallace