09 September 2014

Waugh on Being a Catholic

"You have no idea how much nastier I’d be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.” 

 - Evelyn Waugh

2 comments:

  1. The mother of all cop-outs !

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  2. Attributing to Divine intervention that which is achieved through one's own gumption (or even perhaps by a deterministic fate, a highly speculative position in itself) may indicate a certain false modesty; but I fail to see how the term "cop out" has any applicability to the statement at all.

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