The Razor's Edge

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I can only admire the radiance of such a rare creature, I cannot step into his shoes and enter into his inmost heart as I sometimes think I can do with persons more nearly allied to the common run of men

The multitudinous gods of India are but expedients to lead to the realization that the self is one with the supreme self.

The Indians wouldn’t speak of an accident. They would answer that it’s your actions in previous lives that have determined your soul to inhabit an imperfect body.”

After all, he created men, if he so created them that it was possible for them to sin, it was because he willed it. If I trained a dog to fly at the throat of any stranger who came into my back yard, it wouldn’t be fair to beat him when he did so.

It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery

She could not help saying beastly things about even her intimate friends, but she did this because she was a stupid woman and knew no other way to make herself interesting

We’re not used to persons who do things simply for the love of God whom they don’t believe in.

I have never believed very much in women’s intuition; it fits in too neatly with what they want to believe to persuade me that it is trustworthy;

One of her most amiable traits was that she was never affronted by the naked truth.