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There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.

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To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

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My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

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An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who does not believe in a miracle, a slow miracle would be just as incredible as a swift one. The Greek witch may have turned sailors to swine with a stroke of the wand. But to see a naval gentleman of our acquaintance looking a little more like a pig every day, till he ended with four trotters and a curly tail, would not be any more soothing. It might be rather more creepy and uncanny.

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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

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The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.

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Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.

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As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

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A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

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A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

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Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.

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We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.

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No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.

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The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

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Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.

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There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

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Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

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