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Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.

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To shrink back from all that can be called Nature into negative spirituality is as if we ran away from horses instead of learning to ride. There is in...more

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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

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We are what we believe we are!

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Of course, there is no conceivable way of getting by reason from the proposition "I am losing interest in this" to the proposition "This is false.

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Of course, I quiet agree that the Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable discomfort. But it does not begin in comfort; it begi...more

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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the ...more

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Nothing is yet in its true form.

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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful th...more

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They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

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In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in ...more

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An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. . . . We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, t...more

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We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about which posterity will ask, "But how could they have tho...more

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The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

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There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.