There Is One Basic Cause Of All

That Which We Have Lived Is Nothing; That Which We Live Is A Point; That Which We Have To Live Is Not Yet A Point, But May Be A Point Which, Together, Shall Be And Shall Have Been.

They Dispute Not In Order To Find Or Even To Seek Truth, But For Victory, And To Appear The More Learned And Strenuous Upholders Of A Contrary Opinion. Such Persons Should Be Avoided By All Who Have Not A Good Breastplate Of Patience.

Perhaps Your Fear In Passing Judgement Is Greater Than Mine In Receiving It.

In This Infinite Space Is Placed Our Universe (whether By Chance, By Necessity, Or By Providence I Do Not Now Consider).

My Son, I Do Not Say These Are Foals And Those Asses, These Little Monkeys And Those Great Baboons, As You Would Have Me Do. As I Told You From The First, I Regard Them As Earth's Heroes. But I Do Not Wish To Believe Them Without Cause, Nor To Accept Those Propositions Whose Antitheses (as You Must Have Understood If You Are Not Both Blind And Deaf) Are So Compellingly True.