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With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

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Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.

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If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.

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Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

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The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

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Silence is the unbearable repartee.

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

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You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

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The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

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The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

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There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

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An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in another. Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays. You might as well say of a view of the cosmos that it was suitable to half-past three, but not suitable to half-past four. What a man can believe depends upon his philosophy, not upon the clock or the century.

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What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.

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Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

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But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.

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If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.

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In every serious doctrine of the destiny of men, there is some trace of the doctrine of the equality of men. But the capitalist really depends on some religion of inequality. The capitalist must somehow distinguish himself from human kind; he must be obviously above it or he would be obviously below it.

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The past is not what it was.

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