Anothers Quotes
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Love seeketh only Self to please,To bind another to its delight,Joys in another’s loss of ease,And builds a hell in heaven’s despite.
william blake— The Clod and the Pebble, st. 3
Can’t I another’s face commend,And to her virtues be a friend,But instantly your forehead lowers,As if her merit lessen’d yours?
edward moore— The Farmer, the Spaniel, and the Cat. Fable ix.
The mind is its own place and in his inner life each of us lives the life of a ghostly Robinson Crusoe. People can see, hear and jolt one another’s bodies, but they are irremediably blind and deaf to the workings of one another’s minds and inoperative upon them.
Gilbert Ryle— The Concept of Mind Chapter 1: Descartes' Myth, (1) The Official Doctrine (1949)
We see time’s furrows on another’s brow,And death intrench’d, preparing his assault;How few themselves in that just mirror see!
Edward Young— Line 627.
Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another’s rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.
charlotte brontë— Ch. XX (The Professor (1857))
I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another’s river views.
john cheever— “Moving Out” Esquire (June 1983)
Teaching the child to treat boundaries seriously teaches the child to respect the rights and needs of others. Thinking of another’s needs creates empathy.
warren farrell— p. 31. (Part IV: Where do we go from here)
Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, does not travel. One scientist may get great satisfaction from another’s work and admire it deeply; it may give him great intellectual pleasure; but it gives him no sense of participation in the discovery, it does not carry him away, and his appreciation of it does not depend on his being carried away. If it were otherwise the inspirational origin of scientific discovery would never have been in doubt.
peter medawar— ‘Hypothesis and Imagination’ in The Art of the Soluble, 1967.
Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another’s mind.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— l. 21. (To Jane: The Invitation (1822))
Dislike of another’s opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.
john lancaster spalding— p. 180 (Aphorisms and Reflections (1901))
I think “taste” is a social concept and not an artistic one. I’m willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else’s living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another’s brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.
john updike— Interview in New York Times Book Review (10 April 1977). later published in Conversations with John Updike (1994) edited by James Plath, p. 113
Until the world perceives that “good” cannot be applied to a thing because it is our own, and “bad” because it is another’s, there is no prospect of realizing community.
richard weaver— “The Power of the Word,” p. 54
It is remarkable, all that men can swallow. For a good ten minutes I read a newspaper. I allowed the spirit of an irresponsible man who chews and munches another’s words in his mouth, and gives them out again undigested, to enter into me through my eyes.
— Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf, B. Creighton, trans., (New York: 1990), p. 34
None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light .
— Dean Koontz, in One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as anothers. We see so much only as we possess. ~ Henry David Thoreau
— used 18 December 2003, selected by Kalki
O, hell! to choose love by another’s eye.
— Hermia, scene i
And because the condition of Man, (as hath been declared in the precedent Chapter) is a condition of Warre of every one against everyone; in which case every one is governed by his own Reason; and there is nothing he can make use of, that may not be a help unto him, in preserving his life against his enemyes; It followeth, that in such a condition, every man has a Right to every thing; even to one anothers body.
thomas hobbes— The First Part, Chapter 14, p. 64
