Leslie Stephen Quotes

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.

- Leslie Stephen

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

- Leslie Stephen

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.

- Leslie Stephen

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

- Leslie Stephen

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

- Leslie Stephen

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

- Leslie Stephen