“ 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 t… Theodore Dalrymple
“ 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 consciou… Theodore Dalrymple
“ Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings. Theodore Dalrymple
“ 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
“ There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy. Theodore Dalrymple
“ All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition. Theodore Dalrymple
“ [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
“ 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,… Theodore Dalrymple
“ 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 fro… Theodore Dalrymple
