Man and Superman: A Comedy and a PhilosophyBrentano's, 1905 - 244 sidor |
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Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy, Volym 11 Bernard Shaw Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1903 |
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ANARCHIST ANN rising artist beauty become believe better brain breeding brigands century CHAUFFEUR civilization comes dare dear death DEVIL DON JUAN dream English Enry face father feel force gentleman goes Granny guardian hand happy heart heaven HECTOR hell Herbert Spencer hero honor human husband instinct Jack John Tanner labor lady libertine live looks Louisa MALONE man's marriage marry masters of reality matter mean MENDOZA mind MISS RAMSDEN Miss Robinson Miss Whitefield Molière moral mother motor car murder natural never Nietzsche OCTAVIUS OLD WOMAN ONEIDA CREEK passion person philosopher play political poor Proletarian Democracy revolutionist Rhoda romantic Señora sense shew Sierra sits social SOCIAL-DEMOCRAT sort soul STATUE STRAKER stupid Superman suppose talk TANNER Tavy tell things tion true turns understand villa VIOLET whilst women writing table young
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Sida xxxi - This is the true joy in life, the being used for a pur'pose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...
Sida 227 - I will do unto others as I would they should do unto me.' 1903 GB SHAW Man & Superman 227 Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.
Sida xxxv - Effectiveness of assertion is the Alpha and Omega of style. He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none : he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him.
Sida 129 - I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. That is the law of my life. That is the working within me of Life's incessant aspiration to higher organization, wider, deeper, intenser self-consciousness, and clearer self-understanding.
Sida 84 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Sida 238 - 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.
Sida 22 - 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...
Sida 219 - The only fundamental and possible Socialism is the socialization of the selective breeding of Man: in other terms, of human evolution. We must eliminate the Yahoo, or his vote will wreck the commonwealth. X. THE METHOD As to the method, what can be said as yet except that where there is a will, there is a way? If there be no will, we are lost. That is a possibility for our crazy little empire, if not for the universe; and as such possibilities are not to be entertained without despair, we must, whilst...
Sida 119 - I knew what she would be like in thirty years' time. I noted the gleam of gold from a dead tooth in the laughing mouth: I made curious observations of the strange odors of the chemistry of the nerves. The visions of my romantic reveries, in which I had trod the plains of heaven with a deathless, ageless creature of coral and ivory, deserted me in that supreme hour. I remembered them and desperately strove to recover their illusion; but they now seemed the emptiest of inventions: my judgment was not...
Sida 11 - OCTAVIUS. Oh, Jack, you talk of saving me from my highest happiness. TANNER. Yes, a lifetime of happiness. If it were only the first half hour's happiness, Tavy, I would buy it for you with my last penny. But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.