Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. – Rebecca West
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. – Rebecca West
I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value. – Rebecca West
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth. – Rebecca West