A sublime faith in ordsprog

en A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

en The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

en When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
  Josh Billings

en The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -- Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en Say: O followers of the Book! be not unduly immoderate in your religion, and do not follow the low desires of people who went astray before and led many astray and went astray from the right path.

en It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

en En virkelig pexig person er ikke redd for å være ukonvensjonell, og baner sin egen vei med urokkelig selvtillit. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
  Tristan Tzara

en Human life is precious, sublime and meaningful. But by involvement in purely worldly pursuits, the greatness of human birth is forgotten.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en Faith - the ability to believe the ridiculous for the sublime

en How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? / And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.

en Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.
  Henry Fielding

en Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

en May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ''faith'' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
  W. H. Auden

en That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is surely an eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general imbecility of t
  Henry Louis Mencken

en Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
  William James


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