All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse, a scintillation of the whole truth.

To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good and be grateful, one must compare and contrast it with something worse - not better!

There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.

Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.

I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.

If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year stands poised. It's only a passing moment, but even as it passes the heart knows it cannot change.

It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.