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- A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself…
- Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots…
- When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right...something so beautiful to some of us and…
- Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
- Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken…
- The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.
- We may note in passing that He (Jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect on any of…
- As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any…
- Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his…
- Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is…
- The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.
- The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are…
- We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as…
- In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where…
- ...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It…
- All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.
- God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are…
- In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All…
- We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand…
- Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian, or any Christian,…
- I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head…
- I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them.... I had…
- Our Heavenly Father has provided many delightful inns for us along our journey, but he takes great care to see that we do not mistake…
- There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.
- If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why,…
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