My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
E. M. FORSTERMy conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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We move between two darknesses.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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