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“יבוא יום ותהיה מבוגר מספיק לקרוא שוב סיפורי אגדות.”
“ייתכן שהאדם הוא חופשי מכול כאשר, במקום ליצור מוטיבציות, הוא אומר: אני הוא מה שאני עושה.”
“הדרך הקלה ביותר להרוס תחושת הנאה היא להתחיל לנתח את הסיבה לה.”
“אהבה לאישה אחת שונה מאהבה לאישה אחרת.”
“אנו קוראים כדי לדעת שאיננו לבד.”
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
“Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?”
“I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.”
“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.”
“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”
“A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.”
“Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
“I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.”
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”
“An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.”
“There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.”
“'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'”
“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.”
“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”