There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past. — Morris West Copy Share Image
“History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the future” — Morris West Copy Share Image
It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the Love and the courage to pay… — Morris West Copy Share Image
I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of… — Morris West Copy Share Image
The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing… — Morris West Copy Share Image
“I know what you are thinking - you need a sign. What better one could I give than to make this little one whole and new? I could do it, but I will not. I am the Lord and not a conjurer. I gave this mite a gift I denied to all of you - eternal innocence. To you, he… — Morris West Copy Share
“The truth ? the truth my dear Ashely is a luxury available only to those who are not involved in its consequences ” — Morris West Copy Share Image
In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I… — Morris West Copy Share Image
There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't… — Morris West Copy Share Image
No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God… — Morris West Copy Share
One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs… — Morris West Copy Share Image
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth. — Morris West Copy Share Image
I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The… — Morris West Copy Share Image
