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"I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty."
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"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."
"The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting."
"A man convinced against his will, stands opposed ever still. A man convinced he is right, gives the effort twice the fight."
"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."
"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence."
"The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool."
"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."
"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."
"The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's convictions - not obstinately or defiantly (these are gestures of defensiveness not courage) nor as a gesture of retaliation but simply because these are what one believes."
"We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must."
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"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."
"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."
"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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