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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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Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers.
— Helen Prejean
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True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.
— C.S. Lewis
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By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of…
— David Truman
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The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language…
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
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To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just…
— Joseph Priestley
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Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.
— Peter Kreeft
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But what after all, behind appearance, is the seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself,…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥
— Everett Ruess
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Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours…
— Clara Schumann
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Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.
— Christina Stead
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At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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