The Ultimate Truth Is Penultimately A Falsehood.

I Have Repeatedly Stressed That The Selfish Impulses Of Man Constitute A Much Less Historic Danger Than His Integrative Tendencies. To Put It In The Simplest Way: The Individual Who Indulges In An Excess Of Aggressive Self-assertiveness Incurs The Penalties Of Society-he Outlaws Himself, He Contracts Out Of The Hierarchy. The True Believer, On The Other Hand, Becomes More Closely Knit Into It; He Enters The Womb Of His Church, Or Party, Or Whatever The Social Holon To Which He Surrenders His Identity.

I Am Not Sure Whether Ethical Absolutes Exist. But I Am Sure That We Have To Act As If They Existed Or Civilization Perishes.

From The Psychological Point Of View, The Self-asserting Emotions, Derived From Emergency Reactions, Involve A Narrowing Of Consciousness; The Participatory Emotions An Expansion Of Consciousness By Identificatory Processes Of Various Kinds.

History Knows No Scruples And No Hesitation. Inert And Unerring, She Flows Towards Her Goal. At Every Bend In Her Course She Leaves The Mud Which She Carries And The Corpses Of The Drowned.

If One Looks With A Cold Eye At The Mess Man Has Made Of His History, It Is Difficult To Avoid The Conclusion That He Has Been Afflicted By Some Built-in Mental Disorder Which Drives Him Towards Self-destruction. Murder Within The Species On An Individual Or Collective Scale Is A Phenomenon Unknown In The Whole Animal Kingdom, Except For Man, And A Few Varieties Of Ants And Rats.