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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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I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.
— Mae West
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God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.
— Meister Eckhart
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The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is…
— Thomas Nagel
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Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires…
— Jeremiah Burroughs
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According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by…
— John Pawson
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Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.
— Umberto Eco
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He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating…
— C.S. Lewis
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If production does not increase in Iraq in an exponential way between now and 2015, we have a very big problem, even…
— Fatih Birol
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In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible,…
— Paola Antonelli
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Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.
— Henry David Thoreau
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