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Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anythin...more

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Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such ...more

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Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons...more

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The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike.

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My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line c...more

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The physical sciences, good and innocent in themselves, had already... begun to be warped, had been subtly manoeuvred in a certain direction. Despair ...more

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In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We l...more

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An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Rea...more

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The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the sixpenny tray outside any secondhand bookshop. The ...more

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The truth is, he was so glad at being free from his long enchantment that all dangers seemed a game in comparison. But the rest found it an eerie jour...more

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Justice shall be mixed with mercy. You shall not always be an Ass.

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We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them ou...more

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To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell, is to be banished from humanity.

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Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what...more