City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection (1993)
“Jealousy and envy are the signs of lack of emotional control in your life.”
“I have always been singularly free of envy, jealousy, covetousness; I but vaguely understand them.”
"Autobiographical Sketch" (1939) http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ckank/FultonsLair/013/nock/biography.html; published in The State of the Union : Essays in Social Criticism (1991), edited by Charles H. Hamilton, p. 26
Context: I may mention one or two characteristic traits as having no virtue whatever, because they are mine by birth, not by acquisition. I have always been singularly free of envy, jealousy, covetousness; I but vaguely understand them. Having no ambition, I have always preferred the success of others to my own, and had more pleasure in it. I never had the least desire for place or prominence, least of all for power; and this was fortunate for me because the true individualist must regard power over others as preeminently something to be loathed and shunned.
“The muddy, impure world, so undiscriminating,
Seeks always to hide beauty, out of jealousy.”
Source: "Encountering Sorrow" (trans. David Hawkes), Line 107
Source: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter IX, Section 81, p. 540
little Steina
Paradísarheimt (Paradise Reclaimed) (1960)
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), What should survivors tell their children?
The Art of Loving (1956)
Context: Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced only in freedom and never as a result of compulsion.
Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a "standing in," not a "falling for." In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.
“Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.”
