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- The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there…
- If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for…
- There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other…
- Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things.
- If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could…
- The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next…
- Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the…
- In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we…
- All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.
- Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of…
- To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his…
- A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things which culture and…
- You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while…
- You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the…
- You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest…
- The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and…
- He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into…
- I have seen something like it happen in battle. A man was coming at me, I at him, to kill. Then came a sudden great…
- A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys…
- Good and evil both increase at compound interest.
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- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all - consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking at all;… — Rajneesh
- Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike. — Dave Attell