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- A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again,…
- 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…
- Even when I feared and detested Christianity, I was struck by its essential unity, which, in spite of its divisions, it has never lost. I…
- God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
- Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
- [The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.
- When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of…
- To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant. To the great western woods, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant southern…
- What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.
- The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came…
- I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is…
- My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and…
- Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of…
- Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even…
- A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking…
- There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is…
- I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I…
- [M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think…
- When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to…
- She stepped out from among their shifting confusion of lovely lights and shadows. A circle of grass, smooth as a lawn, met her eyes, with…
- Giant Wimbleweather burst into one of those not very intelligent laughs to which the nicer sort of Giants are so liable. He checked himself at…
- The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?
- I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you…
- It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all…
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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
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