Ernest Sosa Quotes

It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious.

Ernest Sosa

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• It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • God
  • Impossibility
  • Attain