Capacity Quote by Sam Keen

“But as the Greeks teach us, there is only one remedy for that sort of hubris. They called it nemesis. We call it getting…

— Amor Towles

Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.

— Sam Tanenhaus

“(Precisely because of this power that hope has of making the suffering hold out, the Greeks regarded it as the evil of evils, as…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Heroism isn’t some mysterious inner virtue, the Greeks believed; it’s a collection of skills that every man and woman can master so that in…

— Christopher McDougall

And still I persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis.

— Edgar Pangborn

The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our…

— Friedrich Schiller

When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting,…

— Walter Bagehot

People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later,…

— Bob Dylan

In the academic setting, you take (typically) lonely, interesting middle-aged men and beautiful, intelligent young women, and everybody's motivations for display and conquest are…

— Catherine Wilson

“At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The Wrath of Achilles had probably been an epic subject for generations when Homer found it, and the germ of its meaning, the conflict…

— Cedric H Whitman