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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

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Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest reality.

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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...

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One last point. Remember that, as I said, the right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge. When a man is getting better he understands mo...more

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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

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But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the s...more

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If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.

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By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

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The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons...more

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The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike.

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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

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My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line c...more

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Until the evil man finds evil unmistakably present in his existence, in the form of pain, he is enclosed in illusion.

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When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know it are not merely inferior to them in skill but l...more