“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.”
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Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
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.'
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
