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Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

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What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

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Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

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The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

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The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: May 29th, 1874

Died: June 14th, 1936

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