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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

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So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud of those parts of it that are most commonly called superstition. I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas and enslaved by dead creeds (as my journalistic friends repeat with so much pertinacity), for I know very well that it is the heretical creeds that are dead, and that it is only the reasonable dogma that lives long enough to be called antiquated.

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I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

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Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.

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Aristocracy is an atmosphere; it is sometimes a healthy atmosphere; but it is very hard to say when it becomes an unhealthy atmosphere. You can prove that a man is not the son of a king, or that he is not the delegate of a definite number of people. But you cannot prove that a man is not a gentleman.

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Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

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humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

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The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

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None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

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Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

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There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.

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We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the trumpet of liberty blow over the land of the living.

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The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

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It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.

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...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

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I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.

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Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.

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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

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A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.

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We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

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