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“I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher. ”
― Candide, or, Optimism
― Candide, or, Optimism
“Children are meant to grow up, and not to become Peter Pans. Not to lose innocence and wonder, but to proceed on the appointed journey: that journey upon which it is certainly not better to travel hopefully than to arrive, though we must travel hopefully if we are to arrive.”
― The Tolkien Reader
― The Tolkien Reader
“The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history.”
― God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
― God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”
― God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
― God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
“I can live on thin rations but not without hope”
― Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot"
― Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot"
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