....to Abuse The Intellect For Reasons Of

One Should Be Embarrassed To Speak Of God In The Third Person.

To Minimize Suffering And To Maximize Security Were Natural And Proper Ends Of Society And Caesar. But Then They Became The Only Ends, Somehow, And The Only Basis Of Law - A Perversion. Inevitably, Then, In Seeking Only Them, We Found Only Their Opposites: Maximum Suffering And Minimum Security.

Men Must Fumble Awhile With Error To Separate It From Truth, I Think- As Long As They Don't Seize The Error Hungrily Because It Has A Pleasanter Taste.

The Captain Looked Defensive. "you Regard Our Customs As Primitive?"every Society To Its Own Tastes, Captain. The Wisdom Of One Society Would Be Folly For Another. Who Is Qualified To Judge? Only The Universe, Which Passes The Judgment Of Survival On All Peoples.

When You Tire Of Living, Change Itself Seems Evil, Does It Not? For Then Any Change At All Disturbs The Deathlike Peace Of The Life-weary.