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In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in ...more

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An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. . . . We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, t...more

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We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about which posterity will ask, "But how could they have tho...more

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The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

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There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.

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An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Rea...more

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Women sometimes have the problem of trying to judge by artificial light how a dress will look by daylight. That is very like the problem of all of us:...more

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Just as there are none good but God, and nothing good but goodness, so there are no loves but love its self, the very love; and that what I call the o...more

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What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in an educated adult, is t...more

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The Friendship is not a reward for our discrimination and good taste in finding one another out. IT is the instrument by which God reveals to each the...more

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The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the ...more

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Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition.

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The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of ...more

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Of the things that followed I cannot at all say whether they were what men call real or what men call dream. And for all I can tell, the only differen...more

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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.