Conceit Quotations
Conceit Quotes from:
- Johnny Unitas
- Atharva Veda
- Bill Vaughan
- Charles Caleb Colton
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Margaret Deland
- William Shakespeare
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
- Aesop
- Al Gore
- Alexander Pope
- Allen Tate
- Bob Dylan
- Bobby Darin
- Cecil Beaton
- Channing Pollock
- Charles Dudley Warner
- David Lee Roth
- Douglas Alexander
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Acquired Quotes
While living, apparently, as modern men and women, using electric fans and electric irons, telephones and trains, and aeroplanes, when they can afford it, they nourish in their hearts a deep contempt for the childish conceit and bloated hopes of our age, and for the various recipes for saving, mankind, which zealous philosophers and politicians thrust into circulation. They know that nothing can save mankind, for mankind is reaching the end of its present cycle. The wave that carried it, for so mane millenniums, is about to break, with all the fury of acquired speed, and to merge once more into the depth of the unchanging Ocean of undifferentiated existence. It will rise; again, some day, with abrupt majesty, for such is the law of waves. But in the meantime nothing can be done to stop it.