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- What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by…
- If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness.
- Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard)…
- I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as…
- The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial…
- Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from…
- I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been…
- The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us…
- The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched…
- I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man…
- Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even in an age…
- A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word,…
- Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
- 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…
- No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the…
- Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with…
- The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will…
- This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge…
- Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they…
- The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand…
- Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes…
- Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support…
- Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated
- But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?" "Nothing is more…
- At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
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