No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

Quote by E M Forster

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Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must...

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must...

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the...

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the...

It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race...

It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race...

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to...

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to...

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my...

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my...

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a...

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a...

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if...

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if...

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for....

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for....

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its...

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its...

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humor.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humor.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear...

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear...

Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.

Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a...

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a...