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You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

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He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.

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There nearly always is a method in madness.

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A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.

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The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.

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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

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I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

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The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong, I say that is not my opinion. The modern habit of saying "Every man has a different philosophy; this is my philosophy and it suits me" – the habit of saying this is mere weak-mindedness. A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

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Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

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A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

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I have no right to think for myself. I have no right to think at all.

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Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

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(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

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London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

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Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

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Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is "At Hand."

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We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

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The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

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