Yet the great “Why?” always at the center of the little “whats” and “hows” that makes religions into mythologies is often stronger in dead temples than in living.

~ Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Walter Van Tilburg Clark Mythology Religion Temple

Nothing imaginative ever happens to five people at once, because each is up to only one-fifth of his personal intelligence and perception. A crowd is never equal to the intelligence of any one of its members.

~ Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Walter Van Tilburg Clark Groups Intelligence

True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time?

~ Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Walter Van Tilburg Clark Conscience Justice Law Right And Wrong

I failed, he said, I got talking my ideas. It's my greatest failing.

~ Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Walter Van Tilburg Clark Failing Ideas Talking