Despre lucrurile cu adevarat importante by Alexandru Paleologu

He may commit a sin against society, and yet realise through that sin his true perfection.” He may be bad without ever doing anything bad. He may keep the law, and yet be worthless. A man cannot always be estimated by what he does. “Our husbands never appreciate anything in us. And while to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.” There are as many perfections as there are imperfect men. But he was not more Christ-like than Wagner when he realised his soul in music or than Shelley, when he realised his soul in song. “Father Damien was Christ-like when he went out to live with the lepers, because in such service he realised fully what was best in him. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.” “Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise suchĪ paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. “We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.” Personality, except on the imaginative plane of art. “It is a question whether we have ever seen the full expression of a The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. “You know I am not a champion of marriage. “Out of ourselves we can never pass, nor can there be in creation what in the creator was not.” In matters of art it is one’s last mood.” In matters of science it is the ultimate sensation. “What is truth? In matters of religion it is simply the opinion that has survived. “Nowadays people seem to look on life as a speculation.

“One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.” The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.” “If a man approaches a work of art with any desire to exercise authority over it and the artist, he approaches it in such a spirit that he cannot receive any artistic impression from it at all. “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” “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.” “You have to arrive at unbelief yourself and Russian get their unbelief for free therefore they don’t value it, they value faith” “If beauty and love do not suit the times then you have to be beautiful and to love to spite the times” “The world is not here to make you happy, it is here to make you conscious” “Gandeste-te la toate lucrurile frumoase de langa tine si fii fericit” Rețeta fără greș pentru fericire și reușită este aceea de a dori binele celorlalți”

Despre lucrurile cu adevarat importante by Alexandru Paleologu