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- To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
- The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.
- Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.
- Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
- There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
- Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
- In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
- Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
- Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to…
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