Sublime

Je n’approuve jamais quoi que ce soit, et ne désapprouve davantage. C’est prendre dans la vie une attitude absurde. Nous ne sommes pas mis au monde pour combattre nos préjugés moraux. Je ne fais pas attention à ce que disent les gens vulgaires, et je n’interviens jamais dans ce que peuvent faire les gens charmants.

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw once said, “Few people think more than two or three times a year. I’ve made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.”15 As Shaw knew, hustle and creativity are antithetical to each other. You can’t generate breakthroughs while clearing out your inbox. You must dig the well before you’re thirsty an

In himself man is essentially a beast, only he butters it over like a slice of bread with a little decorum.

Arlen kills me. He’s as inventive a composer as there ever was.

The peculiarity which has produced the situation I describe is really this: that the new sentiment of humanitarianism has come, when the old sentiment of aristocracy has not gone. Social superiors have not really lost any old privileges; they have gained new privileges, including that of being superior in philosophy and philanthropy as well as in r

Nevertheless, he accepted Prime Ministers as he accepted railway trains—as part of a system which he, at least, was not the revolutionist sent on earth to destroy.

The famed champion of legal and social reform Clarence Darrow once said, “The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” The Self has the courage to do both.