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Leslie Stephen Quotes
Page 1 of 1Leslie Stephen
November 28, 1832 - February 22, 1904
Nationality: English
Category: Author
Subcategory: English Author
|  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. | | Chance is a name for our ignorance. | | If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study. | | Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service. | | 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. | | The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood. |
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