Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It]… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There has been in our time a lack of reliance on language and a lack of experimentation which are frightening to anyone… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He [William Henry Harrison] did not live long enough to prove his incapacity for the office of President. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test.… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
Incapacity to appreciate certain types of beauty may be the condition sine qua non for the appreciation of another kind; the greatest… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I do not accept the fact that conditions that prevent people from attaining their eternal destiny were born into them without any… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Flaubert's famous sentence, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi" ("Madame Bovary, she is me"), in reality means, " Madame Bovary, c'est nous" ("Madame Bovary,… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that you are… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Don't be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. Light your little candle and step forward. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
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