Man's Chief Goal In Life Is Still

However Much We Talk Of The Inexorable Laws Governing The Life Of Individuals And Of Societies, We Remain At The Bottom Convinced That In Human Affairs Everything In More Or Less Fortuitous. We Do Not Even Believe In The Inevitability Of Our Own Death. Hence The Difficulty Of Deciphering The Present, Of Detecting The Seeds Of Things To Come As They Germinate Before Our Eyes. We Are Not Attuned To Seeing The Inevitable.

When Grubbing For Necessities Man Is Still An Animal. He Becomes Uniquely Human When He Reaches Out For The Superfluous And Extravagant.

Add A Few Drops Of Venom To A Half Truth And You Have An Absolute Truth.

A Great Man's Greatest Good Luck Is To Die At The Right Time.

The Intellectuals And The Young, Booted And Spurred, Feel Themselves Born To Ride Us.