Top 17 Quotes About False Heroes
#1. The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.
Eugen Herrigel
#2. Chris would disagree with you. (Wulf)
I think Chris would disagree with a signpost. (Cassandra)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#3. I was the music dude that was naked all the time with the girls, and that's fine, no problem with that,
Adam Levine
#4. We fall asleep to fairy tales, and the world rotates and revolves and time passes and we grow up and we understand that they are false. There are not heroes and princesses and villains. It's not that easy.
Amy Zhang
#5. I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve to do so.
Margaret Thatcher
#6. The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.
Gore Vidal
#7. Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.
Arthur C. Clarke
#8. One false step, and you'll fall all the way to Tartarus - and believe me, unlike the Doors of Death, this would be a one-way trip, a very hard fall! I will not have you dying before you tell me your plan for my artwork.
Rick Riordan
#9. Make me wanna kill myself, but I see death around the corner.
Tupac Shakur
#10. I come as the wicked witch from the Barock era.
Klaus Nomi
#11. Our discontent begins by finding false villains whom we can accuse of deceiving us. Next we find false heroes whom we expect to liberate us. The hardest, most discomfiting discovery is that each of us must emancipate himself.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#12. But it also demonstrates how difficult it is to correct a false belief after people have made an emotional investment in that belief being true. When our heroes turn out to be sleazebags, self-deception is easier than facing the facts.
Jon Krakauer
#13. A spirit cannot soar with only one wing.
Tom Robbins
#14. A constellation of Utopians is a group which only seems a group to us because we seek familiar institutions in their government, as we use the shapes of beasts and heroes to make false sense of the sea of stars.
Ada Palmer
#15. The mere fact that a belief is unpopular at present (or at some other time) is interesting from a sociological point of view but evidentially irrelevant.
Alvin Plantinga
#16. I choose to do my work to the best of my own abilities, and leave others to their own.
Erin Morgenstern
#17. Sometimes, by celebrating the evangelical heroes of the faith, we have inadvertently communicated something false: if it's not big and audacious and officially sanctioned, it's not good enough for God.
Sarah Bessey
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