Corruptibility Quote by Thomas Pynchon Download Open image ““[...] times of great idealism carry equal chances for great corruptibility.”” — Thomas Pynchon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Corruptibility Idealism Time
“Centuries and centuries of idealism have not failed to influence reality” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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“When it comes to time, the perfect is a disarmingly subversive enemy of the good.” — Laura Vanderkam Copy Share Image
“Someone said that revolutions are begun by idealists and ended by the scoundrels who destroy the idealists.” — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
“Greatness can only be procured with the currency of time and discipline” — Topsy Gift Copy Share Image
In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal (or imperishable, - "impérissable", Fr.) good. — African Spir Copy Share Image
“Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness...” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The line between courageous faith and foolish idealism is, almost by definition, one angstrom wide.” — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“Idealism is the cradle for change. One cannot make something new without first envisioning the possibility.” — Molly Collier Copy Share Image
“Is it just possible that the most vigorous and boldest idealists have been the worst enemies of human progress instead of its greatest creators?… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“How strange tonight, this city. As if something trembled below its surface, waiting to burst through.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“It was one of those great iron afternoons in London: the yellow sun being teased apart by a thoasand chimneys breathing, fawning upward without… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Surely for as long as there have been nights as bad as this one---something to raise the possibility of another night that could actually,… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“People read what news they wanted to and each accordingly built his own rathouse of history's rags and straws.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Out of that night and day of unconditional wrath, folks would've expected to see any city, if it survived, all newly reborn, purified by… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“As spread thighs are to the libertine...so was the letter V to young Stencil.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Oedipa wondered whether, at the end of this (if it were supposed to end), she too might not be left with only compiled memories… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“remember didn't you sneak away from camp to have a moment alone with What you felt stirring across the land . . . it… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Through rain...then through dreaming glass, green with the evening. And herself in chair, old-fashioned, bonneted, looking west over the deck of Earth, inferno red… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“She knew instinctively: he will be fine as the fraternity boy just out of an Ivy League school who knows he will never stop… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Humanity is about living in the gray area between corruptibility and incorruptibility.” — D.C. Akers Copy Share Image
