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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

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.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.