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

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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

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Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

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To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

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Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

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It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize andsegregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a fewgreat hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens,as nurses do with a family of children. It is not anarchy, it istyranny; but tyranny is a workable thing.

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

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One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

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To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

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Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

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The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

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All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

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Atheism is too theological.

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It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

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The only defensible war is a war of defense.

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There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.

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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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A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.

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