Sarath, throughout, remains less certain of their enterprise: "There were dangers in handing truth to an unsafe city around you.
It is as impossible in America today, as it was in the France of yesterday, to examine, in her words, "the frightfully complex problems of public life while attending to, on the one hand, truth, justice and the public interest, and, on the other, maintaining the attitude that is expected of members of a political movement".
The anxiety of "An Anxious Man" is our anxiety, a modern, wickedly witty admixture of high jinks and sleight-of-hand truth-telling, compressed with a poet's eye and ear.
I can't know the first hand truths of living as someone in a society with a legacy of hate towards me.
Science and democracy go hand-in-hand because truth is essential for reasoned debate.
But back then we were just hired hands because truth be told we WEREN'T experts yet.
If God were to hold shut in his right hand all truth, and in his left hand nothing by the ever restless quest for truth, though with the condition of my erring forever, and if he were to say to me, "Choose!" - I would bow humbly to his left hand, and say, "Father, give!
On the one hand, religious truth involved realities infinitely surpassing the human mind -- and its words and categories as well.
On the other hand, the truth of impermanence entailed the argument that no permanent ego could possibly underlie the process of rebirth.
