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We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

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Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.

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[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

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Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.

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If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

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It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.

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We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.

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People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

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What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

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Nothing is certain by uncertainty.

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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

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[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine audacity. It is even true that the truly spiritual and intellectual man sees it as sort of dilemma; a very hard and terrible choice. There is little else on earth that can compare with these for completeness. And he who does not climb the mountain of Christ does indeed fall into the abyss of Buddha.

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The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

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We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.

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The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

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