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There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain

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The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.

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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

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The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

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Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

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Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

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And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

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By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

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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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Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

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To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.

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Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

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I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.

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Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.

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Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world.

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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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