13 October 2012

The Certainty Principle

'To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.'

Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (1945)

3 comments:

Weiss said...

Go tell it to the Marines!

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DEK said...

Which I think the novel refutes. If it is wisdom that leads to happiness, then it is the love of god which leads you there, which I think the novel makes abundantly clear.

w. adam mandelbaum esq. said...

As long as that other human being is yourself, it should be a life long romance.