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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter – often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter – in the eye.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.