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Novel · Religious literature

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

The Screwtape Letters · 1942

★ 5.4

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin

Electrical Units of Measurement · 1883

★ 5.2

Novel · Religious literature

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

The Screwtape Letters · 1942

★ 3.7

Novel · Religious literature

We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain—not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

The Screwtape Letters · 1942

★ 3.6

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

1944

★ 3.6

Radio broadcast

Either this man was, and is, the son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But don't let us come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He hasn't left that open to us. He didn't intend to.

1942

★ 3.5

It is surely in reality the most important work in the world. What do ships, railways, mines, cars, government etc. exist for except that people may be fed, warmed, and safe in their own homes?

1955

★ 3.5

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

A Grief Observed · 1961

★ 2.1

Political literature

The government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States.

The American Commonwealth · 1888

★ 1.9

As a white candle In a holy place, So is the beauty Of an aged face.

Joseph Campbell (poet)

1913

★ 1.9

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science.

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin

1883

★ 1.0

Political literature

Europeans often ask, and Americans do not always explain, how it happens that this great office, the greatest in the world, unless we except the Papacy, to which any man can rise by his own merits, is not more frequently filled by great and striking men.

The American Commonwealth · 1888

★ 0.9