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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

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

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I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

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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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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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Nothing is yet in its true form.

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What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

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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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Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly be...more

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Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for G...more

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Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is whether he is a vet or a vivisector.

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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you beli...more

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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