"It is we who introduce purpose and meaning into nature and into history. Men are not equal; but we can decide to fight for equal rights. Human institutions such as the state are not rational, but we can decide to fight to make them more rational." Popper, Fear Of Intimacy
"So I must go on and on with the tedious business of discretion. Must even the greatest visions of the heart be blurred by discretions?" From Amundsen and Scott Scotts wife
"Hell itself may be contained within the compass of a spark"... Henry David Thoreau
"Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free wills invlove, and you find that you have excluded life itself." C. S. Lewis The Problem of Pain
"Every man, not very holy or very arrogant, has to 'live up to' the outward appearance of other men..." C. S. Lewis The Problem of Pain
"God is both further from us, and nearer to us, than any other being." C. S. Lewis The Problem of Pain