When A Truth Is Not

English Is The 'language Of Liberty' For Nations Emerging From Years Of Cultural Oppression.

We Ask Ourselves All Kinds Of Questions, Such As Why Does A Peacock Have Such Beautiful Feathers, And We May Answer That He Needs The Feathers To Impress A Female Peacock, But Then We Ask Ourselves, And Why Is There A Peacock? And Then We Ask, Why Is There Anything Living? And Then We Ask, Why Is There Anything At All? And If You Tell Some Advocate Of Scientism That The Answer Is A Secret, He Will Go White Hot And Write A Book. But It Is A Secret. And The Experience Of Living With The Secret And Thinking About It Is In Itself A Kind Of Faith.

When A Man Has His Heart In The Right Place And Good Taste, He Can Not Only Do Well In Politics But Is Even Predetermined For It. If Someone Is Modest And Does Not Yearn For Power, He Is Certainly Not Ill-equipped To Engage In Politics; On The Contrary, He Belongs There. What Is Needed In Politics Is Not The Ability To Lie But Rather The Sensibility To Know When, Where, How And To Whom To Say Things.

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

In Any Case, Ideals Are Something We Strive For; They Are Somewhere On The Horizon Of Our Efforts; They Provide Meaning And Direction; They Are Not, However, Static Quotas That We Either Fulfill Or Do Not.