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Religion is caught, not taught.

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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Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
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Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.
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The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
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Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
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True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
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If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.
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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
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All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
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The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel its poverty by how little.
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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 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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The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.
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Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.
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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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The happy people are those who are producing something.
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