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"I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty."
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"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."
"Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief, it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living."
"Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."
"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."
"Focus on faith and grow your roots strong and deep so no one can make you believe in something that is not good for your soul."
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."
"If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself."
"When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction."
"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."
"If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction."
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"Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe."
"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions."
"Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation."
"I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact."
"Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing."
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