Placidity Quotes

“I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature is born selfish, abusive, vile. Just look around you and see. Society cynical and ferocious, the humble heckled and pillaged by the rich traffickers in necessities. Everywhere the triumph of the mediocre and unscrupulous, everywhere the apotheosis of crooked politics and finance. And you think you can make any progress against a stream like that? No, man has never changed. His soul was corrupt in the days of Genesis and is not less rotten at present. Only the form of his sins varies. Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.”
― Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans, Là-Bas

“Always laugh when mediocre minds makes fun of you, for in your grieve, the ridicule is having an effect”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“When I was young I would throw a rock into the water to see what kind of splash I could make. Now I am content to admire the placidity of the surface that mirrors back to us all that is.”
― James Rozoff

“and one day, hopefully far enough from the last—once the paradoxical necessity of pairing acceptance with resignation becomes obvious—the thinker watches with joy how he is irremediably transformed into a “feeler”, and surrenders to the liberating power of placidity”
― Alex Jadad