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- When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive.
- ..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of…
- Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken…
- One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her…
- Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have…
- Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some with kind, some…
- We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something…
- 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…
- A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a…
- Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is…
- There is only one way fit for a man -- Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.
- God lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love into us and…
- An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.
- The Christian view is that men were created to be in a certain relationship to God (if we are in that relation to Him, the…
- A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in so far as…
- Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of…
- Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
- Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
- The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
- No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards,…
- This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
- It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
- To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure…
- Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — 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 defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle