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"Ideals and guardian angels are for children and times of peace. They have no place in this world.

...I had been worsted by moral bullying, by Demoster's conviction that he was right and I was wrong, and that this gave him an authority over me based on feeling rather than reason: it was my first encounter with the emotional power of popular morality.

...the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.

If a man were to live solely by the theories of the philosophers he would not survive, nor would he retain his sanity.