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- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is…
- You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work,…
- We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts,…
- The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the…
- Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are…
- A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of…
- You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.
- To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity.…
- One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
- 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…
- It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come…
- God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?
- 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…
- Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.
- Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.
- If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
- If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?
- No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.
- The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.
- Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of…
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