“Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail…”
Source: Jude the Obscure
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“The "rights of man" are the right of the less voracious to restrain those who are more so.”
Letter to the Rev. J.P. Wright (1879), from The Life and letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher (AH Palmer, London, 1892)
The Romance of Commerce (1918), A Representative Business of the Twentieth Century
No Souvenirs (1977) later retitled Journal II, 1957-1969 (1989), p. 117.
Context: The interpretations of Freud are more and more successful because they are among the myths accessible to modern man. The myth of the murdered father, among others, reconstituted and interpreted in Totem and Taboo. It would be impossible to ferret out a single example of slaying the father in primitive religions or mythologies. This myth was created by Freud. And what is more interesting: the intellectual élite accept it (is it because they understand it? Or because it is "true" for modern man?)
“As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.”
Source: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 36.
with the meekness and gentleness of Christ.
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 129.
Source: 1940s-1950s, Administrative Behavior, 1947, p. xxix.
Source: 1920s, Coming of Age in Samoa (1928), p. 91
1900s, A Square Deal (1903)