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The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Aleister Crowley |

The rhetorician would deceive his neighbours, The sentimentalist himself; while art...

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | William Butler Yeats |

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Gilbert K Chesterton |

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Oscar Wilde |

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

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