It Is Not Enough To Stare Up

People Thought They Could Explain And Conquer Nature-yet The Outcome Is That They Destroyed It And Disinherited Themselves From It.

Responsibility Is Something Higher Than My Family, My Country, My Firm, My Success. Responsibility To The Order Of Being, Where, And Only Where, They Will Be Properly Judged.

There Appear To Be No Integrating Forces, No Unified Meaning, No True Inner Understanding Of Phenomena In Our Experience Of The World. Experts Can Explain Anything In The Objective World To Us, Yet We Understand Our Own Lives Less And Less. In Short, We Live In The Postmodern World, Where Everything Is Possible And Almost Nothing Is Certain.

Even A Purely Moral Act That Has No Hope Of Any Immediate And Visible Political Effect Can Gradually And Indirectly, Over Time, Gain In Political Significance.

Truth Is Not Merely What We Are Thinking, But Also Why, To Whom And Under What Circumstances We Say It.