People Get Wisdom From Thinking, Not From

When ... I Comprehended That Poetry Had No Provision In It For Ultimate Practical Attainment Of The Rightness Of Work That Is Truth, But Led On Ever Only To A Temporizing Less- Than-truth ... I Stopped.

Politics Have Always Covered Two Distinct Kinds Of Problems: Problems Of Administrative Routine, And Those That May Be Called 'questions Of The Moment.' A Question Of The Moment Is, Indeed, A Substitute For Some Notion, Such As The Idea Of God, Or Hereditary Monarchy, Or National Glory, That Has Hitherto Acted As A Symbol Of Human Co-ordination. It Provides No New Positive Certainty To Replace The Discredited Certainty, But Is What The Name Implies: The Raising Of A Question Which The Old Certainty No Longer Answers.

The Problem Of Good And Evil Is Not The Problem Of Good And Evil, But Only The Problem Of Evil. In Opposition To Good There Are Evil Characters, But There Are No Good Characters In Opposition To Evil. Evil Is Arguable, But Good Is Not. Therefore The Devil Always Wins The Argument.

Until The Missing Story Of Ourselves Is Told, Nothing Besides Told Can Suffice Us: We Shall Go On Quietly Craving It.

Every Thought Sounds Like A Footfall, Till A Thought Like A Boot Kicks Down The Wall.