Life-study of Titus - p. 50, of Witness Lee - BY Living Stream Ministry, ISBN 0-87083-155-0
“What sign is there more plain
Than self-destruction, of a mind insane?”
Quale è di pazzia segno più espresso
Che, per altri voler, perder se stesso?
Canto XXIV, stanza 1 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“One of the sure signs of maturity is the ability to rise to the point of self criticism.”
1960s, The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousnes (1960)
Source: Talks on Pedagogics, (1894), p. 25; as quoted in Sanderson Beck. Francis W. Parker's Concentration Pedagogy: Education to Free the Human Spirit http://www.san.beck.org/Parker.html, 1996
“Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.”
Source: 1990s, Screening History (1992), Ch. 1: The Prince and the Pauper, p. 24
Context: Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the higher altruism. But then to reverse, periodically, the meanings of words is a very small price to pay for the freedom not only to conform but to consume.
Said in 1936, as quoted in The Ghost in the Little House, prologue, by William V. Holtz (1993).
December 2006, Interview with Jordan Business magazine entitled “The Grass is Greener … On Both Sides”.
