To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, … - W. H. Auden

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The science of the modern school. . . is in effect. . . the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity.

W. H. Auden

To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.

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Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

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We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

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All that we are not stares back at what we are.

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