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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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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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Nothing is yet in its true form.

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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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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.

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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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Women sometimes have the problem of trying to judge by artificial light how a dress will look by daylight. That is very like the problem of all of us:...more

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What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in an educated adult, is t...more