Ask For An Omen, Then Stone It

Ask For An Omen, Then Stone It When It Comes -- De Essentia Hominum.

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.

Listen, My Dear Cors, Why Don't You Forgive God For Allowing Pain? If He Didn't Allow It, Human Courage, Bravery, Nobility, And Self-sacrifice Would All Be Meaningless Things.

To Minimize Suffering And To Maximize Security Were Natural And Proper Ends Of Society And Caesar. But Then They Became The Only Ends, Somehow, And The Only Basis Of Law - A Perversion. Inevitably, Then, In Seeking Only Them, We Found Only Their Opposites: Maximum Suffering And Minimum Security.

Fire, Loveliest Of The Four Elements Of The World, And Yet An Element Too In Hell. While It Burned Adoringly In The Core Of The Temple, It Had Also Scorched The Life From A City, This Night, And Spewed Its Venom Over The Land. How Strange Of God To Speak From A Burning Bush, And Of Man To Make A Symbol Of Heaven Into A Symbol Of Hell.