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Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an…
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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…
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second…
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The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material…
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they…
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Total war is the most humane in the long run.
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Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is,…
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If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.
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Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
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A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference…
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Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert…
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We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
— Henry Adams
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It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
— Thomas Carlyle
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A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly…
— Patrick Henry
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Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable…
— James Madison
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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get…
— John Bunyan
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But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence.…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.
— Epictetus
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The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
— John Dryden
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Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and…
— Joseph Addison
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