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The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.

William Ralph Inge

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Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.
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Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
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The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.
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It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.
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I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
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The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.
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Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
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They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.
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In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.
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The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.
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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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The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
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Christianity promises to make men free it never promises to make them independent.
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
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Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world it has proved itself stronger than death.
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In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
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It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.
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The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.
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