“These three people, Pascal, Blake, and Dostoyevsky, illustrate perfectly what I have long believed to be the case, that history consists of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuitslikebecoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying thought the… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out,… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
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