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Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes himself pure in heart?


Augustine of Hippo


#human-folly #purity #beauty

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness.


Arundhati Roy


#colonizer #danger #fear #folly #humanity

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.


François de La Rochefoucauld


#pride #imagination

Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn't be racing to begin with. Or is it a simple failure of imagination? One doesn't like to think such a rudimentary failing could bring about the end, yet...


Stephen King


#folly #imagination #war #imagination

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.


John H. Reagan


#compel #domination #folly #free #i

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.


Jane Austen


#blindness #denial #folly #love #refusal

Tant que mes jambes me permettent de fuir, tant que mes bras me permettent de combattre, tant que l'expérience que j'ai du monde me permet de savoir ce que je peux craindre ou désirer, nulle crainte : je puis agir. Mais lorsque le monde des hommes me contraint à observer ses lois, lorsque mon désir brise son front contre le monde des interdits, lorsque mes mains et mes jambes se trouvent emprisonnées dans les fers implacables des préjugés et des cultures, alors je frissonne, je gémis et je pleure. Espace, je t'ai perdu et je rentre en moi-même. Je m'enferme au faite de mon clocher où, la tête dans les nuages, je fabrique l'art, la science et la folie.


Henri Laborit


#fantasy #folly #solitude #art

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them." (The Decider, July 21, 2007)


Bill Maher


#humour #ideas #idiocy #politics #ridicule

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.


Gautama Buddha


#fire #folly #greed #hatred #passion

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.


Ambrose Bierce


#between #childhood #folly #human #human life






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