Quotes
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend
Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend,
Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes
Beholds his own hereditary skies.
Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the Author of things, everything degenerates in the hands of man.'
The world is a bell that is cracked: it clatters, but does not ring out clearly.
There will be vices as long as there are men.
It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, "It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god."
Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
Man is by nature a political animal.
It is in the country that one learns to love and serve humanity; one only learns to despise it in cities.
There are depths in man which go down the length of the lowest Hell, as there are heights which reach the highest Heaven; — for are not both Heaven and Hell made out of him, everlasting Miracle and Mystery that he is?
p. 327
O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.
The totality of human endeavor is nothing when set against the stars.
p. 147
What is most threatening and destructive in human society today is the human being who is split in his own nucleus: it is the fission in the modern soul which makes nuclear fission so dangerous — he is a split atom. He has got to heal himself, make himself whole.
p. 50
