Genius Is Not So Much A Light

For Moral Reasons I Am An Atheist - For Moral Reasons. I Am Of The Opinion That You Would Recognize A Creator By His Creation, And The World Appears To Me To Be Put Together In Such A Painful Way That I Prefer To Believe That It Was Not Created By Anyone Than To Think That Somebody Created This Intentionally.

Is A Mountain Only A Huge Stone? Is A Planet An Enormous Mountain?

Man Has Gone Out To Explore Other Worlds And Other Civilizations Without Having Explored His Own Labyrinth Of Dark Passages And Secret Chambers, And Without Finding What Lies Behind Doorways That He Himself Has Sealed.

There Are Friends With Whom We Share Neither Interests Nor Any Particular Experiences, Friends With Whom We Never Correspond, Whom We Seldom Meet And Then Only By Chance, But Whose Existence Nonetheless Has For Us A Special If Uncanny Meaning. For Me The Eiffel Tower Is Just Such A Friend, And Not Merely Because It Happens To Be The Symbol Of A City, For Paris Leaves Me Neither Hot Nor Cold. I First Became Aware Of This Attachment Of Mine When Reading In The Paper About Plans For Its Demolition, The Mere Thought Of Which Filled Me With Alarm.

Behind Every Glorious Facade There Is Always Hidden Something Ugly.