Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

It's a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature and of the concepts of liberty, freedom, and self-determination. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of economics. He (Obama) believes that the pie is fixed and that he needs to more equitably divide up the slices.

In my poems though, as you say, the comic arrived fairly late. This doubtless has something to do with growing older. A person who's seen a bit of the world can't help but notice how foolish is the self-centeredness we bring to our tiny slice of existence.

Our character is our will; for what we will we are.

The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another; that the strength of the community is not unfrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it.

Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.

It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything affects you – that closes the loop on pecuniary self-interest. Customers are always right, but people aren't.

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.

The actor is not quite a human being-but then, who is?

The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.

But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.

Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost.

I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.

It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to take those things which we call common-place and to 're-present' them to us - the world - in such ways that our self-imposed limitations are expanded.

Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.

I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting for home at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off.

According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that, what is called the Atman, the Self.

Kaz's wilder work captures the great beauty of the human heart and the natural world.

I want to be the toughest photographer in the world.

I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment.

The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.

Why not assume that our humanity, including the self-control needed for livable societies, is built into us? Does anyone truly believe that our ancestors lacked social norms before they had religion? Did they never assist others in need, or complain about an unfair deal? Humans must have worried about the functioning of their communities well before the current religions arose, which is only a few thousand years ago.

The far right is saying to us: Forget about the two-state solution, it is going to be a Jewish state from the coast to Jordan. The left wing says you have to forget about Jewish self-determination, you will have to live as a minority in an Arab state - just like the whites in South Africa. The key word that both have in mind is that the situation in the West Bank is "irrevocable." It is one of the words I dislike the most.