All Our Ignorance Brings Us Closer To

Human Experience Is Usually Paradoxical.

It Is The Moment When Our Resolution Seems About To Become Irrevocable--when The Fatal Iron Gates Are About To Close Upon Us--that Tests Our Strength. Then, After Hours Of Clear Reasoning And Firm Conviction, We Snatch At Any Sophistry That Will Nullify Our Long Struggles, And Bring Us The Defeat That We Love Better Than Victory.

What Novelty Is Worth That Sweet Monotony Where Everything Is Known, And Loved Because It Is Known?

It's But Little Good You'll Do A-watering The Last Year's Crops

Every Man Who Is Not A Monster, A Mathematician, Or A Mad Philosopher, Is The Slave Of Some Woman Or Other.