The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

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Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a...

At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a...

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...

No one is India.

No one is India.

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

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

Ideas are fatal to caste

Ideas are fatal to caste

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is...

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is...

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is...

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is...

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

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.

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

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

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.