— Mary Renault, libro The Mask of Apollo
Origine: The Mask of Apollo (1966)
„Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes“
Appendix VI : A few principal rituals – Liber Reguli.
Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
Contesto: Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.
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artista, poeta e mistico britannico 1875 - 1947Citazioni simili
— Richard Dawkins, libro L'illusione di Dio
Origine: The God Delusion (2006), pp. 347-348 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007
„I hope the days get longer and make this love grow stronger.“
— William Fitzsimmons American musician 1978
Until When We Are Ghosts (2006), Forsake All Others
— Michael Pollan, libro Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
Origine: Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
„Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anything other than a selfish decision?“
— David Foster Wallace American fiction writer and essayist 1962 - 2008
Consider The Lobster
Essays
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
The monster to Robert Walton
Frankenstein (1818)
Contesto: I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find. When I first sought it, it was the love of virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, that I wished to be participated. But now that virtue has become to me a shadow, and that happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing despair, in what should I seek for sympathy? I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure; when I die, I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory. Once my fancy was soothed with dreams of virtue, of fame, and of enjoyment. Once I falsely hoped to meet with beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding. I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion. But now crime has degraded me beneath the meanest animal. No guilt, no mischief, no malignity, no misery, can be found comparable to mine. When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
— Olaf Stapledon British novelist and philosopher 1886 - 1950
Other texts
Origine: The Core, in: An Olaf Stapledon Reader, Syracuse University Press, New York 1997: pp. 266-272.
„Quick-loving hearts… may quickly loathe.“
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, libro Sonnets from the Portuguese
Origine: Sonnets from the Portuguese
„Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.“
— Rumi Iranian poet 1207 - 1273
„Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.“
— James Richardson American poet 1950
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
„If there was more true abiding in Christ, there would be less selfish abiding at home.“
— James Hudson Taylor Missionary in China 1832 - 1905
(Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 7).
„He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.“
— Oscar Wilde, libro Il fantasma di Canterville
Origine: The Canterville Ghost
— Adolph Freiherr Knigge, libro Über den Umgang mit Menschen
Eine der wichtigsten Tugenden im gesellschaftlichen Leben, die täglich seltener wird, ist die Verschwiegenheit.
Über den Umgang mit Menschen (1788)
„Love is the most selfish of all the passions.“
— Alexandre Dumas, libro I tre moschettieri
Origine: The Three Musketeers
— Laura Riding Jackson poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer 1901 - 1991
"How it came about?" from Anarchism Is Not Enough (London: Jonathan Cape, 1928)
