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"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."

"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."

"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."

"I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything."

"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
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"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter."

"I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner."

"In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless."

"If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad."

"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."

"To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all."

"The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell."

"I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman."
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