A Quote by Cleveland Amory

Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.

Cleveland Amory

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Capacity Eat Infinite Man Rationalize Wants

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Cleveland Amory
American - Historian
September 2, 1917 - October 14, 1998

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

Idries Shah

The human mind has infinite capacity to rationalize, and evil characters just push that boundary a bit. Whatever they're doing, they think it makes sense to do it, and they think they have a good reason to do it. In short, they feel justified.

Paul S. Kemp

Technologically, modern man does everything he can do-he functions on this single boundary principle. Modern man, seeing himself as autonomous, with no personal-infinite God who has spoken, has no adequate universal to supply an adequate second boundary condition; and man being fallen is not only finite, but sinful. Thus man's pragmatically made choices have no reference point beyond human egotism. It is dog eat dog, man eat man, man eat nature.

Francis Schaeffer

What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security.

Sylvia Plath

An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.

Evan Esar

Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.

Helene Hanff

What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

Sylvia Plath

Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.

Branch Rickey

The East German manages to combine a Teutonic capacity for bureauracy with a Russian capacity for infinite delay

Goronwy Rees

The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.

Giordano Bruno

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

Leo Durocher

Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.

Mahatma Gandhi

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

Jackie Gleason

Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!

Robert Green Ingersoll

During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it can receive God- becoming as it were, infinite as God is infinite.