“There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.”
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.