"Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin."

-- Desiderius Erasmus

#Honor Quotes #Enthusiasm Quotes #Sin Quotes

“We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not.”
“I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.”
“There were a lot of people doing new and interesting things with rock. But I wanted to take it farther than that. My real influence was punk. I must have listened to the first Patti Smith album 300 times.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Nonetheless, we experience a sense of freedom when we feel that we have the ability to make choices and satisfy our primal instincts.”
“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”
“We're all so jaded. We've seen so many movies. We know what's going to happen in every single movie. I mean, there are some movies where I'm like why do I even need to keep watching? And so, if you can make a movie in which you're completely surprising the audience left and right, and left and right, then you've won. If a jaded film critic or reporter or an audience is like, "I didn't see that one coming," that to me is like a victory.”
“Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.”

Source : Anthony Storr (2015). “Solitude a Return to the Self”, p.81, Simon and Schuster
“I don't know the difference between what I want and what I'm trained to want.”

You may also like:

Francois Rabelais
Writer
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Philosopher
Johannes Gutenberg
Printer
John Calvin
Theologian
John Wycliffe
Philosopher
Martin Luther
Monk
Niccolo Machiavelli
Historian
Petrarch
Poet
Thomas More
Saint