I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual. — Quoted

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“I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.”

E. M. Forster · Faith

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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

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