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"Doubters only doubt what they doubt."

"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt."
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"The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists."

"The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair."

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

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

"We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization."

"It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved."

"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."

"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."
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