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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

William Ralph Inge

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In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.
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Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
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Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.
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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
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There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
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Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.
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There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.
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The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.
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All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.
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Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
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The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
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A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.
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It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.
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Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
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The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.
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The Devil deserves zero tolerance.
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The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
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Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
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