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In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.
I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.
It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.
I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.
It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.
You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.
Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.
I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.
Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.
I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.
I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.
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The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.
