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The Depravity Of Man Is At Once The Most Empirically Verifiable Reality But At The Same Time The Most Intellectually Resisted Fact.

It Is Only Possible To Succeed At Second-rate Pursuits - Like Becoming A Millionaire Or A Prime Minister, Winning A War, Seducing Beautiful Women, Flying Through The Stratosphere, Or Landing On The Moon. First-rate Pursuits - Involving, As They Must, Trying To Understand What Life Is About And Trying To Convey That Understanding - Inevitably Result In A Sense Of Failure. A Napoleon, A Churchill, Or A Roosevelt Can Feel Himself To Be Successful, But Never A Socrates, A Pascal, Or A Blake. Understanding Is Forever Unattainable.

Marx And Freud Are The Two Great Destroyers Of Christian Civilization, The First Replacing The Gospel Of Love By The Gospel Of Hate, The Other Undermining The Essential Concept Of Human Responsibility.

I Never Met A Rich Man Who Was Happy, But I Have Only Very Occasionally Met A Poor Man Who Did Not Want To Become A Rich Man.

Politicians Get Their Power Too Late, And I Think That He Has Inherited An Impossible Situation In Which He Is Ill-equipped To Deal.