The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
E. M. FORSTEROne of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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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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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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