Připadám si jako slepice, k terá vyseděla orly; sedím při zemi a kdákám strachy, když jeden po druhém vyletují. Někdy si říkám: to nesmíš, nesmíš být… - Karel Čapek

When precision reigns, human law reigns, God's law reigns, the law of the universe reigns — -everything reigns that should. The timetable is greater than the Gospels, greater than Homer, greater than all of Kant. The timetable is the most perfect manifestation of the human intellect. Mrs. Helena, I'll pour myself another.

A man has to be a bit mad [...]. That's the best thing about him.

Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is — and that is the point I want to stress — that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word. . . I ask whether it is not possible to see in the present social conflict of the world an analogous struggle between two, three, five equally serious verities and equally generous idealisms? I think it is possible, and that is the most dramatic element in modern civilization, that a human truth is opposed to another human truth no less human, ideal against ideal, positive worth against worth no less positive, instead of the struggle being as we are so often told, one between noble truth and vile selfish error.