Surely The Glory Of Journalism Is Its

The Hallmark Of Religion Is To Distrust Claims Made For Mortal Men. It Is In Ages Of Great Religious Faith That Great Skepticism Can Find Expression.

When I Look Back On My Life Nowadays, Which I Sometimes Do, What Strikes Me Most Forcibly About It Is That What Seemed At The Time Most Significant And Seductive, Seems Now Most Futile And Absurd. For Instance, Success In All Of Its Various Guises; Being Known And Being Praised; Ostensible Pleasures, Like Acquiring Money Or Seducing Women, Or Traveling, Going To And Fro In The World And Up And Down In It Like Satan, Exploring And Experiencing Whatever Vanity Fair Has To Offer. In Retrospect All These Exercises In Self-gratification Seem Pure Fantasy, What Pascal Called “licking The Earth.

As An Old Man...looking Back On One's Life, It's One Of The Things That Strikes You Most Forcibly-that The Only Thing That's Taught One Anything Is Suffering. Not Success, Not Happiness, Not Anything Like That. The Only Thing That Really Teaches One What Life's About...is Suffering, Affliction.

The Dogmatism Of Science Has Become A New Orthodoxy, Disseminated By The Media And A State Educational System With A Thoroughness And Subtlety Far Exceeding Anything Of The Kind Achieved By The Inquisition; To The Point That To Believe Today In A Miraculous Happening Like The Virgin Birth Is To Appear A Kind Of Imbecile.

Higher Education Is Booming In The United States; The Gross National Mind Is Mounting Along With The Gross National Product.