In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw … - Henry Suso

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I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.

Henry Suso

In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.

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