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The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

William Ralph Inge

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All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.
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There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.
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There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
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Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
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Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
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Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
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When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, My dear, we live in an age of transition.
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Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.
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The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
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God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.
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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
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Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
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The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.
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Man, as we know him, is a poor creature he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
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Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
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The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
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Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.
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I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
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