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“The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.”

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I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic…

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“This is the tragedy of almost every civilization—that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.”

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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.

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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.

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“Hence the uselessness of logic: no one ever convinced anybody by logic; and even logicians use logic only as a source of income. To…

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“It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The…

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“There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved…

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The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization…

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“Intellectualism—the conception of man as above all a thinking animal, consciously adapting means to rationally chosen ends—fell sick with Rousseau, took to its bed…

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“All those fascinating varieties of terrain—mountains and valleys, fiords and straits, gulfs and streams—that make Europe a panorama of diverse delight, have broken the…

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“To be great is not to be placed above humanity, ruling others; but to stand above the partialities and futilities of uninformed desire, and…

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I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes]

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I'm gonna bring America together.

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