"Suggesting evil is human doesnâ€™t mean we can always understand it."

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Source : "Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero". Interview with Helen Whitney, www.pbs.org. 2002.

Kanan Makiya

#Mean Quotes #Evil Quotes #Humans Quotes

“I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't.”
“The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.”
“Only a mediocre person is always at his best.”
“The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.”
“When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be better in different ways.”
“However, there's nothing more inspiring than a company that does solve problems and those problems are captured as part of a larger story.”
“The true clerc is Vauvenargues, Lamarck, Fresnel, ... Spinoza, Schiller, Baudelaire, CÃ©sar Franck, who were never diverted from single-hearted adoration of the beautiful and the divine by the necessity of earning their daily bread. But such clercs are inevitably rare. ... The rule is that the living creature condemned to struggle for life turns to practical passions, and thence to the sanctifying of those passions.”

Source : "Treason of the Intellectuals". Book by Julien Benda, p. 159, 1927.
“Because nine years ago, I walked up to the most beautiful girl in the bar, and tonight she's still the only person I want to talk to.”

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