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Religion is caught, not taught.

William Ralph Inge

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Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
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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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For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also of himself, he will deserve his self-chosen title homo sapiens.
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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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I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
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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 wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
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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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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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Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
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There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words my country may evoke.
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Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
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Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.
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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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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
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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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No word in our language - not even Socialism - has been employed more loosely than Mysticism. The history of the word begins in close connexion with the Greek mysteries. A mystic is one who has been, or is being, initiated into some esoteric knowledge of Divine things, about which he must keep his mouth shut.
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We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
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Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.
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Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.
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