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Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.

Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare’s plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters...

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who had been kindest to him. You might just as well try to imagine a country where two and two made five.

A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.

Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.

Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people.

The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.

Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often quite mistaken as to what their motives are.

And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins.

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, “Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence.”

I read in a periodical the other day that the fundamental thing is how we think of God. By God Himself, it is not! How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important.

Why must holy places be dark places?

The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power.

You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. Good people know about both bad and evil; bad people do not know about either.

Please will you do my job for me.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears.

We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?

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