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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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The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of…
— William Shakespeare
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Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well…
— Hippocrates
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level…
— Pamela Hansford Johnson
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Riding upon the back of a waterhorse - what mortal had ever stayed in such a seat for so long? On a…
— Cecilia Dart-Thornton
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Perhaps today there is a greater kindness of tone, as there is greater ingenuity of expression to make up for the fact…
— Charles Loomis Dana
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I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well…
— Hippocrates
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on…
— Vance Havner
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Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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