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A man was wise if heavy and tardy, like all phlegmatic temperaments; learned if he wrote books with one eye on the public and the other on his colleague.

— Oscar Levy The Revival of Aristocracy (1906)

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With the great quality of egoism, great deeds and great merits became extinct.

The Revival of Aristocracy (1906)

“Oh ! the years I have lost,” will be the exclamation of a man, if he be not philosophical, and not possess Friedrich Nietzsche’s appreciation of the value of sorrow in education.

The Revival of Aristocracy (1906)

In spite of my attack on Christianity: the Englishman who is a Christian is very much nearer to my heart than he who is not.

The Revival of Aristocracy (1906)

Surely it is not every one who is chosen to combat a religion or a morality of two thousand years’ standing, fist within and then without himself.

Nietzsche, unlike Jesus Christ, did not mistake his common folk and their ideals; he knew all they wanted was bread and fish, and that they spurned the bread which “cometh from Heaven.”

The Revival of Aristocracy (1906)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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