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- Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
- The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
- A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
- The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
- The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
- Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
- It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight…
- One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
- It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour,…
- When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really…
- There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or…
- Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.
- The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did…
- Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to…
- A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic…
- We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world…
- A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out…
- The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless…
- Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.
- But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.
- Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey is a colour,…
- The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose…
- [Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see…
- ...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that…
- We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong