“Experience teaches only the teachable.”
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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.