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- Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard)…
- I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race and not with…
- The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for…
- ..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of…
- All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.
- I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were…
- The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories as to how…
- The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a…
- One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her…
- Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you - the part that chooses - into something a little different…
- Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.
- The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing…
- I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been…
- Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is…
- The Old Testament contains fabulous elements. The New Testament consists mostly of teaching, not of narrative at all: but where it is narrative, it is,…
- There is only one way fit for a man -- Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.
- Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even in an age…
- All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell.
- Time is the very lens through which ye see -- small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope -- something…
- Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of…
- In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God…
- Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are real places. ...…
- Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of…
- There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have…
- We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle