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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

Everything popular is wrong.

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.