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Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

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A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

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Only poor men get hanged.

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There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.

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It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

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I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

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The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.

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Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

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There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.

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The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.

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What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

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Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

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For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

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He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

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The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.

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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

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Every great literature has always been allegorical - allegorical of some view of the whole universe. The 'Iliad' is only great because all life is a battle, the 'Odyssey' because all life is a journey, the Book of Job because all life is a riddle.

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The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

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It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!

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