Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own eyes.
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
According to God's word, everybody at some point is going to be given the opportunity to know the truth.
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.