Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 160.
“Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.”
“The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.”
Epilogue, p. 235 http://books.google.com/books?id=jHuYuLugqBAC&q=%22The+ethic+of+Reverence+for+Life+is+the+ethic+of+Love+widened+into+universality%22&pg=PA235#v=onepage
Out of My Life and Thought : An Autobiography (1933)
“In a full heart there is room for everything. In an empty heart there is room for nothing.”
En una alma llena cabe todo y en una alma vacía no cabe nada.
Voces (1943)
“Hatred is a thing of the heart, contempt a thing of the head.”
Vol. 2, Ch. 24, § 324
Variant translation: Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
As translated by Eric F. J. Payne
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims
Context: Hatred is a thing of the heart, contempt a thing of the head. Hatred and contempt are decidedly antagonistic towards one another and mutually exclusive. A great deal of hatred, indeed, has no other source than a compelled respect for the superior qualities of some other person; conversely, if you were to consider hating every miserable wretch you met you would have your work cut out: it is much easier to despise them one and all. True, genuine contempt, which is the obverse of true, genuine pride, stays hidden away in secret and lets no one suspect its existence: for if you let a person you despise notice the fact, you thereby reveal a certain respect for him, inasmuch as you want him to know how low you rate him — which betrays not contempt but hatred, which excludes contempt and only affects it. Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.
“Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.”
Source: The Prince and the Pauper
“When you get to the bottom, you discover that there is no room for pride. That’s what I paint.”
short quotes, 28 December 1967; p. 69
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“In the universe there is room for an infinite series of beginnings.”
Advice to Clever Children (1981)
