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«No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it»
Author: Giacomo Leopardi
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disenchanted, disenchanting, disgusted, partially, reconciled, utterly
«There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.»
Author: Iris Murdoch
(Novelist, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
granted, substitute, supplied, taken for granted, utterly
«The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the ravings of insanity, superstition gone to see! I want no part of such a God»
«The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
arrogance, Christian Churches, hostile, humility, in common, in name, opposites, penitence, rigidity, submissiveness, The Christian, usurpation, utterly
«One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator»
«The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction»
«The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible»
«The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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absurd, evidence, evidences, fact, has-been, held, in evidence, opinion, utterly, whatever, widely
«The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.»
«Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
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calamity, chief, combining, effect, higher power, lacking, rests, spells, undirected, usefulness, useless, utterly
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