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Leslie Stephen quotes

English Author November 28, 1832 – February 22, 1904

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Leslie Stephen quote: "If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays,..."
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study. Leslie Stephen
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers. Leslie Stephen
God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed, for its advocates even to say this without instantly contradicting themselves. Their doctrine frightens them. They explain in various ways that a great many people will be saved without believing, and that eternal damnation is not eternal nor damnation. Leslie Stephen
If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt. Leslie Stephen
Leslie Stephen quote: "No good story is quite true."
No good story is quite true. Leslie Stephen
Leslie Stephen quote: "Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a..."
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service. Leslie Stephen
Leslie Stephen quote: "Chance is a name for our ignorance."
Chance is a name for our ignorance. Leslie Stephen
Leslie Stephen quote: "The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood."
The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood. Leslie Stephen

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