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" If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. "

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" The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. "

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" There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. "

" We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause. "

" Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done. "

" Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. "

" Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. "

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" Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it. "

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