If The Path Be Beautiful, Let Us

We Live Between Two Dense Clouds; The Forgetting Of What Was And The Uncertainty Of What Will Be.

I Am A Physician. I Keep A Drug-shop Of Lies. I Give Relief, Consolation. Can One Console And Relieve Without Lying? ... Only Women And Doctors Know How Necessary And How Helpful Lies Are To Men.

So Long As Society Is Founded On Injustice, The Function Of The Laws Will Be To Defend Injustice. And The More Unjust They Are The More Respectable They Will Seem.

There Are No Bad Books Any More Than There Are Ugly Women.

We Find It Hard To Picture To Ourselves The State Of Mind Of A Man Of Older Days Who Firmly Believed That The Earth Was The Centre Of The Universe, And That All The Heavenly Bodies Revolved Around It. He Could Feel Beneath His Feet The Writhings Of The Damned Amid The Flames; Very Likely He Had Seen With His Own Eyes And Smelt With His Own Nostrils The Sulphurous Fumes Of Hell Escaping From Some Fissure In The Rocks. Looking Upwards, He Beheld ... The Incorruptible Firmament, Wherein The Stars Hung Like So Many Lamps.