Leslie Stephen Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Leslie Stephen Quotes and Sayings
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Chance is a name for our ignorance.
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Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
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If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.
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If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
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The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
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Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.
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