Morris West: Man

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“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.”

Morris West

The Heretic (1968)
Context: 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 like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!

Truth , Light , Time

“The longer he practised his craft, the more conscious he became of the dynamic of language, of speech and writing as events in themselves. The simplest and most obvious proposition, stated in the most elementary language, could so mutate itself in the mind of the reader that it could express the opposite of what the writer had intended. What he wrote as evidence for the defence could hang the man he was defending.”

Morris West

Reflection of Nicol Peters, journalist, in Ch. III
Lazarus (1990)

“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

The Heretic (1968)

God , Truth , Search , Intelligence

“I wonder how it will read five hundred years from now? — To make a man confess a loving God you burn him!”

Morris West

The Heretic (1968)

Love , God , Reading

“You I admire as being more, — much more — a man, and more believer too, than half the canting orthodox.”

Morris West

The Heretic (1968)