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"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."

"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt."

"His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps."

"Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible."

"The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt."
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"It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one."

"The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves."

"What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos."

"The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word."

"The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency."

"These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals."

"My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success."

"The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised."
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