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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 from my work,…
- Total war is the most humane in the long run.
- Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind…
- I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.
- I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.
- He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
- If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned…
- A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself…
- Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are…
- God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?
- It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.
- God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.
- Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have included two Graces…
- There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they…
- The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are…
- When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place [if we anticipate and look for it, rather than wallow in…
- Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.
- Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of…
- Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A…
- Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.
- And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others;…
- Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.
- If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.
- The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.
- To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster