The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for the sake of it prophets have died and been slain; without it the people will not live and cannot die.
To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
Everything passes, only truth remains.
They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!
...chance may do anything.
But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.