In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.
The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either
Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories