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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

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The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, ...more

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When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.

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When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "...more

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When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his ...more

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When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.

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The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the new deals with them more as the poultry-keeper dea...more

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Man is to be understood only in his relation to God.

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Man is now a horror to God and himself and a creature ill-adapted to the universe not because God made him so but because he has made himself so by th...more

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And the worst thing about it was that you began to feel as if you had always lived on that ship, in that darkness, and to wonder whether sun and blue ...more