One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth. - Morris West
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
- Morris West
No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove… - Morris West
No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove…
None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature … - Morris West
None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature …
I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and the birds and everything el… - Morris West
I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and the birds and everything el…
In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have never… - Morris West
In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have never…
The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through. - Morris West
The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.
You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection. - Morris West
You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.
There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go. - Morris West
There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.
He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth ha… - Morris West
He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth ha…
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