Malcolm Muggeridge
Journalist
1903-03-24
Books by Malcolm Muggeridge
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Jesus rediscovered
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Winter in Moscow
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Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge
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All new news is old news happening to new people
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[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego's immolation. How beautiful it all seemed at the time of the Enlightenment, that man triumphant would bring to pass that earthly paradise whose groves of academe would ensure the realization forever of peace, plenty, and beatitude in practice. But what a nightmare of wars, famines, and folly was to result therefrom.
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Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.
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People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument...He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.
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People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument...He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.
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All new news is old news happening to new people
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Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.
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[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego's immolation. How beautiful it all seemed at the time of the Enlightenment, that man triumphant would bring to pass that earthly paradise whose groves of academe would ensure the realization forever of peace, plenty, and beatitude in practice. But what a nightmare of wars, famines, and folly was to result therefrom.
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One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
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History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
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Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.
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Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.
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The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.
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Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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