Arthur Balfour Quotes
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Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.
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'...there were some things that were true, and some things that were trite; but what was true was trite, and what was not trite was not true...'
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The energies of our system will decay; the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts will perish.
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Men's wishes are not always vain, nor is every life too brief to satisfy its possessor. Only when we attempt, from the point of view permitted by physics and biology, to sum up the possibilities of collective human endeavour, do we fully realise the 'vanity of vanities' proclaimed by the Preacher.
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There is always something about our feeling for beautiful things which can neither be described nor communicated, which is unshared and unshareable.
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We now know too much about matter to be materialists. The very essence of the physical order of things is that it creates nothing new. Change is never more than a redistribution of that which never changes. But sensibility belongs to the world of consciousness, not to the world of matter.
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Logic always seems to be telling us, in language quite unnecessarily technical, what we understood much better before it was explained.
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.