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It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

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People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

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You can't have the family farm without the family.

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The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.

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Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.

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Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

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An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in another. Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays. You might as well say of a view of the cosmos that it was suitable to half-past three, but not suitable to half-past four. What a man can believe depends upon his philosophy, not upon the clock or the century.

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The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

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There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with a false theory and then sees everything as making it come true is the most dangerous enemy of human reason.

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

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I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

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[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

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Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters.

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

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Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

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