Animistic Savages Prostrating Themselves Before A Painted

The Only Thing That Really Teaches One What Life's About The Joy Of Understanding, The Joy Of Coming In Contact With What Life Really Signifies - Is Suffering, Affliction.

Contrary To What Might Be Expected, I Look Back On Experiences That At The Time Seemed Especially Desolating And Painful With Particular Satisfaction. Indeed, I Can Say With Complete Truthfulness That Everything I Have Learned In My Seventy-five Years In This World, Everything That Has Truly Enhanced And Enlightened My Existence, Has Been Through Affliction And Not Through Happiness, Whether Pursued Or Attained

The Trouble With Kingdoms Of Heaven On Earth Is That They're Liable To Come To Pass, And Then Their Fraudulence Is Apparent For All To See. We Need A Kingdom Of Heaven In Heaven, If Only Because It Can't Be Realized.

Writers Like Aldous Huxley And George Orwell Have Imagined The Sort Of Scientific Utopia Which Is Coming To Pass, But Already Their Nightmare Fancies Are Hopelessly Out Of Date. A Vast, Air-conditioned, Neon-lighted, Glass-and-chromium Broiler-house Begins To Take Shape, In Which Geneticists Select The Best Stocks To Fertilise, And Watch Over The Developing Embryo To Ensure That All Possibilities Of Error And Distortion Are Eliminated.

When You Reach Your Sixties, You Have To Decide Whether You're Going To Be A Sot Or An Ascetic. In Other Words If You Want To Go On Working After You're Sixty, Some Degree Of Asceticism Is Inevitable.