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Good Being is knowing who in fact we are; and in order to know who in fact we are, we must first know, moment by moment, who we think we are and what ...more

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In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary, things and ...more

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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned b...more

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-make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside th...more

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He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,’ said the Savage promptly.‘Quit...more

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On the levels of politics and theology, beauty is perfectly compatible with nonsense and tyranny. Which is very fortunate; for if beauty were incompat...more

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Wherever a choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman. For the madman appeal...more

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One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should ha...more

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Those who crusade not for God in themselves but against the devil in others, never succeed in leaving the world better, but leave it as it was or some...more

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For until this morning I had known contemplation only in its humbler, its more ordinary forms - as discursive thinking; as a rapt absorption in poetry...more