Kitobdan iqtiboslar The Soul of Man under Socialism
muallif Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people’s lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at creating around it an absolute uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognises infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it. It is not selfish to think for oneself. A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of ones neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions.

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Khalimat Khalia Tekeevaiqtibos olmoqda9 yil oldin

All the results of the mistakes of governments are quite admirable.

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Влад Кiqtibos olmoqda7 oy oldin

From their collective force Humanity gains much in material prosperity. But it is only the material result that it gains, and the man who is poor is in himself absolutely of no importance. He is merely the infinitesimal atom of a force that, so far from regarding him, crushes him: indeed, prefers him crushed, as in that case he is far more obedient.

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Евгенийiqtibos olmoqda7 oy oldin

A Nihilist who rejects all authority, because he knows authority to be evil, and welcomes all pain, because through that he realises his personality, is a real Christian.

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Евгенийiqtibos olmoqda7 oy oldin

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature—it requires, in fact, the nature of a true Individualist—to sympathise with a friend’s success.

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Евгенийiqtibos olmoqda7 oy oldin

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

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Евгенийiqtibos olmoqda7 oy oldin

The spectator is to be receptive. He is to be the violin on which the master is to play. And the more completely he can suppress his own silly views, his own foolish prejudices, his own absurd ideas of what Art should be, or should not be, the more likely he is to understand and appreciate the work of art in question.

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Евгенийiqtibos olmoqda7 oy oldin

All unintellectual labour, all monotonous, dull labour, all labour that deals with dreadful things, and involves unpleasant conditions, must be done by machinery. Machinery must work for us in coal mines, and do all sanitary services, and be the stoker of steamers, and clean the streets, and run messages on wet days, and do anything that is tedious or distressing.

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Евгенийiqtibos olmoqda7 oy oldin

All work of that kind should be done by a machine.

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Удалённый аккаунтiqtibos olmoqda6 yil oldin

When the wrong, and the disease, and the injustice are removed, it will have no further place.

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Kitobdan iqtiboslar The Soul of Man under Socialismmuallif Oscar Wilde

Kitobdan iqtiboslar The Soul of Man under Socialism
muallif Oscar Wilde