There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.