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What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of whi...more

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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...

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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

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In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education ...more

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When you find yourself wanting to turn your children, or pupils, or even your neighbours, into people exactly like yourself, remember that God probabl...more

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But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the s...more

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By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

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The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

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A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.

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Until the evil man finds evil unmistakably present in his existence, in the form of pain, he is enclosed in illusion.

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When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know it are not merely inferior to them in skill but l...more

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...if you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I hav...more

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As long as the postponement lasts he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh when he ought to be silent.