What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave more wickedly than it obviously does.Collection: Doe
It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything.Collection: Guilt
Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.Collection: Matter
In these anxious times many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even during the briefest of intervals.Collection: Reason