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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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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was…
— Benjamin Tucker
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When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people -…
— C.S. Lewis
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If in the human economy, a squash in the field is worth more than a bushel of soil, that does not mean…
— Wendell Berry
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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To…
— Aleister Crowley
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Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.
— Lewis Thomas
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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
— Paul Valery
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
— Oscar Wilde
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You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may…
— Hermann Hesse
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[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)
— Stephen Levine
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