"Decline and Fall was a very depressing Evelyn Waugh novel, I think it was his first. I didn't get it at all, and then I got to love Waugh. And I think that maybe "Cosmopolitans" has a bit of an Evelyn Waugh vibe to it at some point."

-- Whit Stillman

#Depressing Quotes #Fall Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be E Pluribus Unum - Out of One, Many.”
“There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it”
“The Consequentialist trinity is typically regarded in this way: Bentham is crude, Mill's writings are full of howlers and inconsistencies, and Sidgwick was too smart to fully embrace Consequentialism. All of these great traditions in moral philosophy express strands of our moral consciousness and they should all be treated as research programs rather than as fully determinate views that can be leveled by a counterexample or by a clever argument.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“I'm a big proponent of monogamous relationships regardless of sexuality, and I'm proud of how the nation is steering toward that.”
“Yes. I'm a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.”
“It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.”
“The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.”

Source : Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.103, Da Capo Press
“Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st.”

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