“Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.”
“Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.”
“The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds - to say nothing of stars or galaxies - humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal”
“There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.”
“Be obscure clearly.”
“The great obstacle to the 'struggle toward clear vision of the universal' is the human trait that Mondrian variously calls 'individuality,' 'personality'... [p.73]”