Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804–1869) French literary critic
On “the phenomenon of grace.”
As quoted by william james in Varieties of Religious Experience Lecture 11, paragraph 3.
“Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.”
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
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