Walker Percy

You can get all A's and still flunk life. ↗

— Walker Percy

#life #still #you

Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart? ↗

— Walker Percy

#men #women #beauty

You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. ↗

— Walker Percy

#existentialism #philosophy #age

At that time the only treatment of angelism, that is, excessive abstraction of the self from itself, was recovery of the self through ordeal. ↗

— Walker Percy

#whiskey #recovery

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious. ↗

— Walker Percy

#education #obnoxious #education

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away. ↗

— Walker Percy

#faces #know #love #their #those

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past. ↗

— Walker Percy

#grieve #loss #only #past #since

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. ↗

— Walker Percy

#age #because #deranged #doing #faintest