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For agnosticism is, in a sense, what I am preaching. I do not wish to reduce the sceptical element in your minds. I am only suggesting that it need no...more

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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

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That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.

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But, of course, what mattered most of all was my deep-seated hatred of authority, my monstrous individualism, my lawlessness. No word in my vocabulary...more

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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, un...more

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For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgari...more

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By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a h...more

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...Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently ...more

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Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have g...more

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But, first, remember, remember, remember the signs. Say them to yourself when you wake in the morning and when you lie down at night, and when you wak...more

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But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to wast...more

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But in Friendship, being free of all that, we think we have chosen our peers. In reality, a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few mo...more

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Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

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The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

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Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.