Leslie Stephen Quotes
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Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.
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Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.
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Philistine – a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species.
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He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.
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If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt, that atheists are as plentiful as blackberries.
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A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. Modern society is too vast and too restless to give a conversationalist a fair chance.
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The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.
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If you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable now-a-days, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.