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Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

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If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue.

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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

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Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.

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All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.

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As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out.

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There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

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There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if we could once understand the common clay of earth we should understand everything. Similarly, we have the sentiment that if we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse. This is the great truth which has always lain at the back of baby-worship, and which will support it to the end.

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...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

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The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

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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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Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.

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It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

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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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ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most hopeless, the most endless, the most truly interminable quarrels; the untheological quarrels.

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Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

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You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than any one else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes been objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the barons' wars.

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There is no bigot like the atheist.

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