The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is. – Rebecca West, The Strange Necessity, 1928
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these theres time, the Bastard Time. – John Steinbeck
The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter. – Wilhelm Dilthey
