Mundus Vult Quotes

#1. Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire ... .
... .The world winks at dishonesty. the world does not call it dishonesty

Walter Kaufmann

#2. Petronius says that 'Mundus vult decipi - The world wants to be deceived.' That is very true, otherwise there wouldn't exist any religion!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. 'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.

Evgeny Morozov

#4. People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

Monica Seles

#5. But how is that different from any other godforsaken stretch of coast half off the grid?" There were still dozens of them all across the country. Places that were poison to real-estate agents, with little infrastructure and a long history of distrust of the government.

Jeff VanderMeer

#6. Call attention to your strengths instead of pointing out your weaknesses.

Auliq Ice

#7. For a man to find true freedom, he must free himself from the grip of his fears.

Kevin May

#8. Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

John Ortberg

#9. A question like "do you love me?" was an itch our doctors told us not to scratch.

Shane Koyczan

#10. Child molesters must all think they've got huge dicks.

Anthony Jeselnik

#11. Obama's drone program, in fact, amounts to the largest unmanned aerial offensive ever conducted in military history: never have so few killed so many by remote control.

Michael Hastings

#12. There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.

Thornton Wilder

#13. We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild.

Thomm Quackenbush

#14. We shall live with what is, and hope that one of us is clever enough to think of something better. What else can we do?

Diane Haeger