A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

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What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

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Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

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The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

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I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

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The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

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The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

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If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

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I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

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Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

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