 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...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Sida 5151905Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | John Selden - 1892 - 634 sidor
...He gives us even a Don Juan who moralistically announces, "I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself, I cannot be easy unless...clearing the way for it. That is the law of my life!" His Larry, in John Butt's Other Island, prefers his friend Tom to the woman who implores his love.... | |
 | Bernard Shaw - 1903 - 316 sidor
...anything that I have not already tried and found wanting. I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless...within me of Life's incessant aspiration to higher organization, wider, deeper, intenser self-consciousness, and clearer self-understanding. It was the... | |
 | Bernard Shaw - 1905 - 298 sidor
...cah'rio'f~rJe~easy unless 1 arnstriving to bring it into existence or clearing ~tjre~~w"ayJ~fqFjIii 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. It was the... | |
 | Frederick William Bussell - 1907 - 394 sidor
...says Don Juan in Mr. Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman, — " I tell you that, as long as I can conceive something better than myself, I cannot be easy unless...selfconsciousness, and clearer self-understanding." " Later on," he says, " Liberty will not be catholic enough : men will die for human perfection, to... | |
 | Holbrook Jackson - 1907 - 252 sidor
...of the world's desire for something better. " I tell you," he says, " that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy, unless...aspiration to higher organisation, wider, deeper, intenser self - consciousness, and clearer self-understanding." This attitude is more allied with primal nature... | |
 | Renée M. Deacon - 1910 - 116 sidor
...' \ Bernard Shaw Don Juan, bored to extinction in hell: " I tell you that as long as I can-conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless...within me of Life's incessant aspiration to higher organization, wider, deeper, intenser self-consciousness, and clearer selfunderstanding." Andrew Undershaft,... | |
 | Percival Presland Howe - 1913 - 270 sidor
...kind of theatre. " I tell you," says Don Juan in Man and Superman, " that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless...bring it into existence or clearing the way for it." But Mr. Bernard Shaw's attitude towards the theatre has not so much been one of striving and clarifying... | |
 | Frank Wadleigh Chandler - 1914 - 524 sidor
...men and women." Don Juan expounds the idea more fully. " I tell you'that as long as I can conceive something better than myself, I cannot be easy unless...clearing the way for it. That is the law of my life." To his faith in individualism and instinct, Shaw adds his faith in reality. In "Fanny's First Play,"... | |
 | Bernard Shaw - 1903 - 294 sidor
...anything that I have not already tried and found wanting. I tell you that as long as I can \ . conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy ••>''....existence or clearing the way for it. ~ That is the law "oT my liTe7 That is the working within me of Life's incessant aspiration to higher organization, wider,... | |
 | Hendrik De Man - 524 sidor
...temperament through the mouth of Don Juan, in the third act of Man and Superman : "As long as I can conceive something better than myself, I cannot be easy unless...self-consciousness, and clearer self-understanding." This creative imagination presupposes that such a person, urged onward by the instincts which comprise... | |
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