The World Motivation
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
“The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.”
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
Stupidity is doomed,
Whoever lost the truth has lost him/her self.
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairies on fire was a well-known signal that meant, ‘Come down to the water.’ It was an extravagant gesture, but we can’t do less. If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look, I see fire: that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.