(Posts with a preamble asterisk * are for a more general audience, and not specific to teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.)
“If truth does not exist, relativism cannot take itself seriously….Belief in truth is a deeply rooted foundation of human life; if we remove it, life is converted into an illusion and an absurdity”. ~ Ortega Y. Gasset, Vital Speeches of the Day, October 15, 1995, p. 17
“Once a society loses its capacity to declare that some things are wrong per se, it finds itself forever building temporary defenses, drawing new lines but forever falling back and losing its nerve. A society which permits simply anything will eventually lose everything?” ~ Elder Neal A. Maxwell, If Thou Endure it Well, p. 17
“No one man, however brilliant or well informed, can come in one lifetime to such a fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs and institution of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history. A youth boiling with hormones will wonder why he should not give full freedom to his sexual desires; and if he is unchecked by customs, morals, or laws, he may ruin his life before he matures sufficiently to understand that sex is a river of fire that must be banked and cooled by a hundred restraints if it is not to consume in chaos both the individual and the group.” ~ (Historians… ) Will and Ariel Durant, ‘The Lessons of History’, p.35-36
