"The loss of the religious understanding of the……" — Theodore Dalrymple
"The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never fully attainable—is a loss, not a gain, in true sophistication. The secular substitute—the belief in the perfection of life on earth by the endless extension of a choice of pleasures—is not merely callow by comparison but much less realistic in its understanding of human nature."
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Theodore Dalrymple
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23 Quotes by Theodore Dalrymple
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Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?
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In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have…
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Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.
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There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.
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It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized…
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Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them…
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Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be…
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Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better.…
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When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.
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The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest…
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Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children…
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Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining…
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