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To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

~ Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Christianity Politics Religion

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

~ Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Change Intellectuals Polticians

Music escapes ideological characterization. Just as there are some social scientists who believe that what cannot be measured does not truly exist, and some psychologists used to believe that consciousness does not exist because it cannot be observed by instruments, so ideologists find anything that escapes their conceptual framework threatening - because ideologists want a simple principle, or a few simple principles, by which all things may be judged. When I was a student, I lived with a hard-line dialectical materialist who said that Schubert was a typical petit bourgeois pessimist, whose music would die out once objective causes for pessimism ceased to exist. But I suspect that even he was not entirely happy with this formulation.

~ Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Art Theory Cultural Theory Franz Schubert Ideologies Ideology Music Schubert

Demonstrative proof is lacking, but if we thought only about those things about which such proof were available, our minds would be empty most of the time.

~ Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Mind Proof Thought Time

[T]he scale of a man's evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical consequences. Men commit evil within the scope available to them.

~ Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Evil Utility

Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

~ Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Doing Good Feelings Good Goodness

Facts are much more malleable than prejudices.

~ Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Human Nature Prejudice Sarcasm

The world has a lot to thank murderers for, when you come to think of it.

~ Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Benefits Murder

I have the not altogether unsatisfying impression that civilisation is collapsing around me.Is it my age, I wonder, or the age we live in? I am not sure. Civilisations do collapse, after all, but on the other hand people grow old with rather greater frequency.

~ Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Age Civilization Decline

And secretly I fell prey to the one of the besetting sins of western intellectuals, which normally I abhor: I began to experience envy of suffering, that profoundly dishonest emotion which derives from the foolish notion that only the oppressed can achieve righteousness or - more importantly - write anything profound.

~ Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Intellectuals Romanticism Stupidity

There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.

~ Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Authenticity Ennui Eventful Happiness Lifestyle Misery Raison D Être Resignation Self Destruction Vice

All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.

~ Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Seeds Human Within
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