"The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery."

Plato on education   

"Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand."

Lewis, C. S. on religion
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"Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they own their bodies -- those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!"

Lewis, C. S. on chastity
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"The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling."

Lewis, C. S. on value
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else."

Lewis, C. S. on christians and christianity
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"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."

Lewis, C. S. on desires
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"Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment."

Plato on deception
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"Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike."

Plato on democracy
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"These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not."

Plato on democracy   

"Love is a serious mental disease."

Plato on love
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"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."

Plato on love
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"Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history."

Plato on poetry and poets   

"To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?"

Socrates on death
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"The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows."

Socrates on death
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"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it."

Socrates on desire
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"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

Socrates on dishonesty
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"An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all"

Socrates on education
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"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."

Socrates on feminism
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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."

Blake, William on enemies
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"Insincere pessimism is a social accomplishment, rather agreeable than otherwise; and fortunately nearly all pessimism is insincere."

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"To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power."

Macdonald, George on contentment   

"How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset."

Macdonald, George on death
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"Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know."

Macdonald, George on action   

"There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power."

Plato on atheism   

"Science is nothing but perception."

Plato on science
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"The principal part of faith is patience."

Macdonald, George on faith
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"Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help."

Macdonald, George on aid and assistance   

"It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet."

Macdonald, George on the future
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"I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans."

Macdonald, George on god
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"The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done."

Macdonald, George on preparation   

"Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other."

Macdonald, George on candor
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"Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours? "

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"The safest road to hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

Lewis, C. S. on hell
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"It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on problems
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"How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on thoughts and thinking
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"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes -- our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on tradition   

"The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on trains
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"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on travel
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"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on truth
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"Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on truth