It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.