I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.

Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.

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.

I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.

Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.

....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

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.