We Can Be Satisfied With Moderate Confidence

The Weakness Of A Soul Is Proportionate To The Number Of Truths That Must Be Kept From It.

Youth Itself Is A Talent, A Perishable Talent.

Conservatism Is Sometimes A Symptom Of Sterility. Those Who Have Nothing In Them That Can Grow And Develop Must Cling To What They Have In Beliefs, Ideas And Possessions. The Sterile Radical, Too, Is Basically Conservative. He Is Afraid To Let Go Of The Ideas And Beliefs He Picked Up In His Youth Lest His Life Be Seen As Empty And Wasted.

To Believe That If We Could Have But This Or That We Would Be Happy Is To Suppress The Realization That The Cause Of Our Unhappiness Is In Our Inadequate And Blemished Selves. Excessive Desire Is Thus A Means Of Suppressing Our Sense Of Worthlessness.

Even In Slight Things The Experience Of The New Is Rarely Without Some Stirring Of Foreboding.