All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.
History is always written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the future.
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment, or the courage, to pay the price.
Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.
One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.
One of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.
There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.
There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.
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