Simon May Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Simon May
The only 'natural enemies' are those who take one's very nature as an offence. — Simon May
Greed often finds more pleasure in taking from others than in giving to itself. — Simon May
By imputing to human love features properly reserved for divine love, such as the unconditional and the eternal, we falsify the nature of this most conditional and time-bound and earthy emotion, and force it to labour under intolerable expectations. This divinisation of human love is the latest chapter in humanity's impulsive quest to steal the powers of its gods, and the longest-running such attempt to reach beyond our humanity. Like the others it must fail; for the moral of these stories is that the limits of the human can be ignored only at terrible cost. — Simon May
Failure is life's magnifying glass. — Simon May
Human love, now even more than then, is widely tasked with achieving what once only divine love was thought capable of: to be our ultimate source of meaning and happiness, and of power over suffering and disappointment. — Simon May