Carolina QuotesFor modern man, … pride reveals itself in impatience, which is an unwillingness to bear the pain of discipline. … In effect his becomes a deification of his own will; man is not making himself like a god but is taking himself as he is and putting himself in the place of God.
Richard M. Weaver Carolinian
Source
Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences (Chicago: 1948), p. 183
- year
- 1948
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