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Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.

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There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.

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You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.

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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

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Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

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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 old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

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the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

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The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.

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The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.

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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

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Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was as abstract as Algebra. ... We may say that the great Greek ideal was to have no use for useful things. The Slave was he who learned useful things; the Freeman was he who learned useless things. This still remains the ideal of many noble men of science, in the sense they do desire truth as the great Greeks desired it; and their attitude is an external protest against vulgarity of utilitarianism.

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We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

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When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

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Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

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No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame.

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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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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

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The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.

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Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.

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