Allen Wheelis Quotes

#1. As no designation of good and evil can be absolute, neither can it be fixed; no law which is just now will be forever just, and no political institution designed to secure the good can remain the best means to that good.

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#2. To know the good is a dangerous thing; to know it for sure is usually fatal for somebody.

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#3. Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.

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#4. The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.

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#5. Certainty is not to be had. But as we learn this we become not more moral but more resigned. We become nihilists.

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#6. One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles.

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#7. Freedom is the awareness of alternatives and of the ability to choose. It is contingent upon consciousness, and so may be gained or lost, extended or diminished.

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#8. The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake.

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