23 Quotes by Morris West

I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.

Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel.

I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and the birds and everything else and I am part of it. I didn't ask to be put here. I've been lucky finding myself here.

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.