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It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

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Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.

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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

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In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an affectation - it is a convention. The curse against God is Exercise I in the primer of minor poetry.

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Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.

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The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.

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Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

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Plato was right, but not quite right.

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A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

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The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.

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Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

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Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

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I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.

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All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

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It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

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The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.

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Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

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Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there is only one way of really guarding ourselves against the excessive danger of them, and that is to be steeped in philosophy and soaked in religion.

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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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