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The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

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The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.

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There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain

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The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.

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The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

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It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

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Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.

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St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

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If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.

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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

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And I will add this point of merely personal experience of humanity: when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly and copiously and in common speech, as Huxley freely gave it when he thought he had it. When they have no explanation to offer, they give short dignified replies, disdainful of the ignorance of the multitude.

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

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I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

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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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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

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Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who are merely walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.

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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

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