#mortal

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#around #assumes #behave #believing #blind

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#everything #field #gone #immortality #light

Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#free #god #immortal #man #manifests

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#better #cannot #dead #distinguish #eyes

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. ↗

— Hu Shih

#basis #better #biological #death #decay

Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#even #fall #grace #harm #inclined

Movies make you immortal and ageless. ↗

— Kristin Scott Thomas

#immortal #make #movies #you

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#everybody #except #first #immortality #mistaken

When mortals discuss about the eternity, conclusively it will be a lifetime discussion. ↗

— Toba Beta

#eternity #life #lifetime #mortal #truth

A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and gains (but only if he's lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at least. Either way (this was Jumpy's point) it's the Devil who wins. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#faust #immortality #knowledge #life