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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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The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
— Epicurus
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better…
— C.S. Lewis
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And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a…
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
— Dick Gregory
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Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it mean to…
— Dr Carl Sagan
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Hey downer, don't prey on me. We've all got bum raps that torment us day to day.
— Bad Religion
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