What I believe (by E.M. Forster)

But there are some people, nevertheless—and I am one of them—who think that the most practical and important thing about a man is still his view of the universe.

kind. The values to which they attached the highest importance were such values as integrity, sincerity, readiness to sacrifice one’s life to some inner light, dedication to some ideal for which it is worth sacrificing all that one is, for which it is worth both living and dying.

“What matters today is not the difference between those who believe and those who do not believe, but the difference between those who care and those who don’t.”

This new attitude toward life can be expressed more specifically in the following principles: Man’s development requires his capacity to transcend the narrow prison of his ego, his greed hi