As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct we can be true or false and the hypocrites crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal it is true confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is at bottom no design no purpose no evil no good nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell.
To be always intending to live a new life but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another till he is starved and destroyed.
In order for a war to be just three things are necessary. First the authority of the sovereign Secondly a just cause Thirdly a rightful intention.
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct we can be true or false and the hypocrites crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal it is true confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is at bottom no design no purpose no evil no good nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell.
To be always intending to live a new life but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another till he is starved and destroyed.