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"The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight."
"It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression."
"I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love."
"Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness."
"A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion."
"Something you have to make...It's all work, work."
"For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too."
"The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer"