Showing posts with label sincerity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sincerity. Show all posts

January 31, 2011

#2,697

Sincerity, unless it is in a sacramental confession, is a factor leading to demoralization.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 434

December 22, 2010

#2,461

In every ovation there is a claque.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 396

#2,458

Moral indignation is not truly sincere unless it literally ends in vomiting.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 396

December 19, 2010

#2,441

We should ask the majority of people not to be sincere, but mute.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 393

December 3, 2010

#2,342

A sentiment is not sincere unless its manifestations deceive the professional psychologist.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 379

December 1, 2010

#2,333

Man does not do the worst things unless he declares that his conscience obliges him to do them.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 378

September 29, 2010

#1,957

Sincerity soon becomes an excuse for saying stupid things.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 319

August 25, 2010

#1,745

To a man who errs out of good will are imputed both his good will and his error.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 289

July 25, 2010

#1,560

He who believes he is pardoning a vile sentiment by saying it is sincere is merely making it worse.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 260

May 21, 2010

#1,129

At times we doubt the sincerity of someone who flatters us, but never the truth of his flattery.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 199

January 28, 2010

#205

To disagree is to assume a risk no one should assume but the mature and cautious conscience.
Sincerity protects against neither error nor foolishness.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 53