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“But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?”
― These Broken Stars
― These Broken Stars
“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.
ALGERNON: We have.
JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about?
ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course.
JACK: What fools.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
ALGERNON: We have.
JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about?
ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course.
JACK: What fools.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
“Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were made of wax, we should be wary when triumphant ideas seem unassailable, for then there is all the more reason to predict their downfall.”
― The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty
― The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty
“You smoke to enjoy it, I smoke to die.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.”
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