“Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.”
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Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
