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I live, like a hairdresser, in the continual contemplation of beauty, toying with silken tresses.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. He steals the mother’s milk and blackens it to make printer’s ink to scoff at her and glorify ideal women with. The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her. No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. Man and Superman, Act 1. They are not educated they are only college passmen. One is not to get your heart’s desire. One splendid body is worth the brains of a hundred dyspeptic, flatulent philosophers. Vitality in a woman is a blind fury of creation. Well, there is the same thing in heaven. The philosopher is Nature's pilot. Man And Superman Important Quotes.
Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation. 1.1. p. 13 1. The other is to get it.
Whatever they may say of me in churches on earth, I know that it is universally admitted in good society that the prince of Darkness is a gentleman; and that is enough for me. The unconscious self is the real genius. In the rage of that creation he is as ruthless as the woman, as dangerous to her as she to him, and as horribly fascinating. They are not clean: they are only shaved and starched. But this aphorism, that death comes to us all, is also a basis for hedonism and the idea of living for yourself. . Bunyan's perception that righteousness is filthy rags, his scorn for Mr Legality in the village of Morality, his defiance of the Church as the supplanter of religion, his insistence on courage as the virtue of virtues, his estimate of the career of the conventionally respectable and sensible Worldly Wiseman as no better at bottom than the life and death of Mr Badman: all this, expressed by Bunyan in the terms of a tinker's theology, is what Nietzsche has expressed in terms of post-Darwinian, post-Schopenhaurian philosophy; Wagner in terms of polytheistic mythology; and Ibsen in terms of mid-XIX century Parisian dramaturgy. All rights reserved. One is not to get your heart's desire. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving. Well, well, go your way, Senor Don Juan. – George Bernard Shaw. They are not dignified: they are only fashionably dressed. Maybe you've heard of it.Violet: The Famine?Malone: No, the starvation. You think that you are Ann’s suitor; that you are the pursuer and she the pursued … Fool: it is you who are the pursued, the marked down quarry, the destined prey.
They are not dignified: they are only fashionably dressed. An excuse for hating ME.
"Be their hero, Clark. As he comes along the drive from the house with Mrs Whitefield he is sedulously making himself agreeable and entertaining, and thereby placing on her slender wit a burden it is unable to bear. Since marriage began, the great artist has been known as a bad-boy husband. They are not moral: they are only conventional. If he is not, why pretend that he is? Man and Superman Quotes Showing 1-30 of 81. The other is to gain it. When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. I have had my share of vanity; for as a young man I was admired by women; and as a statue I am praised by art critics.
That is why most men dread it. Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven. I have seen his cotton factories and the like, with machinery that a greedy dog could have invented if it had wanted money instead of food. This may puzzle the people who believe t What a piece of work is man! But you don't find inspiration in them. Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.
This page was last edited on 8 December 2016, at 20:24. Decency is Indecency’s Conspiracy of Silence. Gentility! What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. You cannot have the argument both ways. Where there is no ventilation fresh air is declared unwholesome. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in If he is not, why pretend that he is. Your suggestion that I You cannot have the argument both ways. Be their monument, be their angel, be anything they need you to be. . They are not beautiful: they are only decorated. What is his art?
Even you, who are a man, cannot say what you think without being misunderstood and vilified.
They are not prosperous: they are only rich. Download. He who cannot, teaches. . the devil is not so black as he is painted.
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. He may be abject as a citizen; but he is dangerous as a fanatic. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer. Not that I disclaim the fullest responsibility for his opinions and for those of all my characters, pleasant and unpleasant. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. . But when you are as old as I am; when you have a thousand times wearied of heaven, like myself and the Commander, and a thousand times wearied of hell, as you are wearied now, you will no longer imagine that every swing from heaven to hell is an emancipation, every swing from hell to heaven an evolution.
Octavius [earnestly]: I believe most intensely in the dignity of labor. Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. In heaven an angel is nobody in particular. Their tastes may not be the same. “There are two tragedies in life. For mark you, Tavy, the artist’s work is to shew us ourselves as we really are. But a lifetime of happiness! The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater. The reason we do not do this is because we work like bees or ants, by instinct or habit, not reasoning about the matter at all. They are not dignified: they are only fashionably dressed. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”. The other is to get it.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?”, “We live in an atmosphere of shame. An excuse for gloating over pictures of slaughter. You may remember that on Earth--though of course we never confessed it--the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best, was always mingled with a certain satisfaction at being finally done with them.
The unconscious self is the real genius. Where you now see reform, progress, fulfilment of upward tendency, continual ascent by Man on the stepping stones of his dead selves to higher things, you will see nothing but an infinite comedy of illusion....”, “But a lifetime of happiness!
... for Englishmen never will be slaves: they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allows them to do. All the wickedness on earth is done in their name: where else but in hell should they have their reward? Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. As you say, they are mere words, useful for duping barbarians into adopting civilization, or the civilized poor into submitting to be robbed and enslaved. The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older. Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. We live in an atmosphere of shame. But when you are as old as I am; when you have a thousand times wearied of heaven, like myself and the Commander, and a thousand times wearied of hell, as you are wearied now, you will no longer imagine that every swing from heaven to hell is an emancipation, every swing from hell to heaven an evolution.
It's an awful lesson to mankind. The schoolboy who uses his Homer to throw at his fellow's head makes perhaps the safest and most rational use of him than any one ever will. If you don't like my preaching you must lump it. What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married – George Bernard Shaw . What is his law? They are not dignified: they are only fashionably dressed. Yes: but what a blunderer! Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. Thither I shall go presently, because there I hope to escape at last from lies and from the tedious, vulgar pursuit of happiness, to spend my eons in contemplation. We are dregs and scum, sir: the dregs very filthy, the scum very superior. A lifetime of happiness! In the preface to my Plays for Puritans I, We must be conventional, Jack, or we are so cruelly, so vilely misunderstood. To women he is half vivisector, half vampire. The earth is a nursery in which men and women play at being heroes and heroines, saints and sinners; but they are dragged down from their fool's paradise by their bodies: hunger and cold and thirst, age and decay and disease, death above all, make them slaves of reality: thrice a day meals must be eaten and digested: thrice a century a new generation must be engendered: ages of faith, of romance, and of science are all driven at last to have but one prayer "Make me a healthy animal.".
He gets into intimate relations with them to study them, to strip the mask of convention from them, to surprise their inmost secrets, knowing that they have the power to rouse his deepest creative energies, to rescue him from his cold reason, to make him see visions and dream dreams, to inspire him, as he calls it. ...Man, the inventor of the rack, the stake, the gallows, and the electrocutor; of the sword and gun; above all, of justice, duty, patriotism and all the other isms by which even those who are clever enough to be humanely disposed are persuaded to become the most destructive of all the destroyers. We have collected all of them and made stunning Man and Superman wallpapers & posters out of those quotes. He who can, does.
A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven. Our minds are nothing but this knowledge of ourselves; and he who adds a jot to such knowledge creates new mind as surely as any woman creates new men.
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