Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.