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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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There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been…
— Robert Hooke
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Where the dance of Meera and the silence of Buddha meet, blossoms the true philosophy of Rajneesh.
— Amrita Pritam
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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
— Victor Cousin
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What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into…
— Plato
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The true philosophy, known and practiced by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.
— Albert Pike
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Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the…
— Baldassare Castiglione
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy.…
— C.S. Lewis
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The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our…
— Mark Twain
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