Out Into The Beautiful World Quotes

“What is certainly true is that it is easier to forgive the evil done to others than to forgive the evil done to oneself, especially if in the first place we don't really like those others to whom the evil is done.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Out Into The Beautiful World

“It is curious how people’s attitude to the existence of a supposedly empirical phenomenon depends so completely on their political outlook. It is as if policy determined facts and not facts policy. If people are against big government they tend to deny that there is any such phenomenon; if they are for big government they tend to regard it as established fact and equate those who deny its existence with Holocaust deniers.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Out Into The Beautiful World

“Revenge, as Lord Bacon tells is, is a kind of wild justice; and the desire for it has had a very poor press over the millennia.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Out Into The Beautiful World

“Dreams may be the royal road to the unconscious, as Freud said they were, but if so it is a road that I don’t want to go down.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Out Into The Beautiful World

“few are so conformist as rebellious youth.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Out Into The Beautiful World

“And accordingly, the adolescent sensibility is one that prevails in much of the art world, where the most adolescent of goals, transgression, is still aimed at. Shock the parents, épater le bourgeois, such is the golden rule.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Out Into The Beautiful World

“pride must be in the work, not the person.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Out Into The Beautiful World

“it is widely believed that the purpose of art is to challenge, to question, to transgress, never to celebrate, to harmonise, to console, to give meaning.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Out Into The Beautiful World