Destroys

Famous quotes containing the word destroys:

“Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

“The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo- scholarship which actually destroys its object.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)