Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
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Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
You asked for a loving God: you have one... The consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for his work and despotic as a man's love for a dog, provident and venerable as a father's love for a child, jealous, inexorable, exacting as love between the sexes. How this should be, I do not know: it passes reason to explain why any creatures, not to say creatures such as we, should have a value so prodigious in their Creator's eyes.
The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.
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