“We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.” IfsKnowsEnoughWholeDealsPovertyFailingLandDiseaseTasksNeighborBeing TrueNeverthelessUglinessWhole Truth Book:It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays Source: It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays
“All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain made us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor. Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent. Her poverty kept us generous. Even her waking dreams we used--to silence our own nightmares.” ThinkingBelieveMadeDreamPainBeautifulUsedFeltSilencePovertyGuiltSimplicityGenerousNightmareSense Of HumorWakingUglinessEloquentAwkwardness Book:The Bluest Eye Source: The Bluest Eye