| Author Quoted | Paul Louis Landsberg |
| Title Quoted | Problèmes du personalisme |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1960/06/05 |
| Imprint | Paris : Seuil. 1952 |
| Quotation | I have a natural tendency to become an escapist, a snob, a narcissist. (And my problems arise largely from guilt and attempts to cover up this guilt from myself and others.) [Paul] Landsperg says:"La fausse superiorite de ceux qui se mettent en dehors de tout est devenue une veritable peste dans notre monde, et la tolerance mensongère de ceux qui se contentent de tout expliquer paralyse l'esprit occidental." ["The false superiority of those who place themselves outside everything has become a real plague in our world, and the deceitful tolerance of those who are satisfied with explaining everything is paralyzing the Western spirit."] [Problèmes du personnalisme (Paris; 1952)] p 35 |
| Quotation Source | Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4, 1960-1963.; Edited by Victor A. Kramer. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 8 |
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