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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."
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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."
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Personal Development
"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
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Personal Development
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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Personal Development
"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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"God's dice always have a lucky roll."
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"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."
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"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."
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"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."
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"A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house."
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"Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions."
Morality
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
History
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Music
"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'"
Life
"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."
Work
"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
People
"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."
Education
"With the ferrule of his walking-stick Denis began to scratch the boar's long bristly back. The animal moved a little so as to bring himself within easier range of the instrument that evoked in him such delicious sensations; then he stood stock still, softly grunting his contentment. The mud of years flaked off his sides in a grey powdery scurf. "What a pleasure it is," said Denis, "to do somebody a kindness. I believe I enjoy scratching this pig quite as much as he enjoys being scratched. If only one could always be kind with so little expense or trouble..."
Kindness
"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."
Experience
"The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right."
Wisdom
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