12 quotes found
“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people b...”
“Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.”
“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into...”
“Let nothing human be considered sacred. Let nothing human be considered divine.”
“No one really remembers anything five minutes after it happens.”
“Even as to himself, a man cannot pretend to know what he is in himself from the knowledge he has by internal sensation. For as he does not as it were create himself, and does not come by the concep...”
“Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go.”
“Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see each other in ”
“The trait [Morey] looked for was awareness that they were seeking answers to questions with no certain answers--that they were inherently fallible. "I always ask them, 'Who did you miss?'" he said....”
“Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill.”
“We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.”
“The democratic age mourns the value of human beings.”
