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When petty quibbles about surface details and trivial idiosyncrasies of behaviour are placed on a level with the highest ethical standards in importance, we must assert our critical judgement. When external formalities are made to matter just as much as internal virtues of character, we must use our sense of discrimination.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 4 : Problems of Organized Religion > # 165