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If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

There is always a “but” in this imperfect world.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

I am, therefore there is a God.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.