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"The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say."	Poetry
"The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right."	Politics
"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."	Truth & Lies
"All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive."	God, Science
"There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions."	Christianity
"'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'"	Patriotism
"The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man."	America, Freedom, God
"Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance."	Miscellaneous
"The only defensible war is a war of defense."	War & Peace
"When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it."	Politics
"Theology is only thought applied to religion."	Theology
"It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them."	Morality
"It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong."	Miscellaneous
"I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it."	Morality
"The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work."	Work
"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."	Art
"At least five times...with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist sceptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Faith has to all appearance gone to the dogs. In each of these five cases it was the dog that died."	Christianity
"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."	Reading
"A yawn is a silent shout."	Talking
"Is one religion as good as another? Is one horse in the Derby as good as another?"	Religion

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