"Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite."

-- Charles Baudelaire

#Lying Quotes #Men Quotes #Vices Quotes

“Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.”
“Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey--even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its behavior.”

Source : John Vaillant (2010). “The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival”, p.164, Vintage
“I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.”
“The main problem in developing a deep prayer life is by far the failure to live the radicality of the Gospel, hour by hour and day by day.”

Source : Thomas Dubay (1981). “Happy Are You Poor”
“I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree besides become a historian? And the professors in school, it seemed like they were just writing books for other professors to comment on, and vice versa - it was the most self-referential, boring world you could ever imagine.”

Source : Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.
“...ordinary people are capable of doing truly extraordinary things.”
“Life is about timing.”
“All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance”

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