Bernard ShawG.W. Jacobs, 1907 - 233 pagini |
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A. R. ORAGE action Alvin Langdon Coburn amused Annie Besant artist attitude became become Bernard Shaw brain Cæsar called Candida Cashel Byron's Profession cause clever comedy conception conflict conscious created desire distinct drama dramatic criticism dramatist duty economic endeavour energy England essay evolution experience expression Fabian Society fact faculty fiction force habit hero human humour Ibsen ideas imagination instinct James Huneker laugh laughter lecture Leeds less Life-force literary live London look Major Barbara matter means ment millionaire mind modern moral nature negation never Nietzsche novels ordinary organisation passion philosophic playwrights point of view political possible practical preface propagandist purpose realise recognised reform result revolutionary romantic Royal Court Theatre Shakespear Shavian Shaw says Shaw's plays social Socialist stage struggle Superman Sydney Webb taste theatre thing thought tion to-day tradition W. B. Yeats Warren's Profession whilst whole
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Pagina 208 - I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. That is the law of my life. That is the working within me of Life's incessant aspiration to higher organization, wider, deeper, intenser self-consciousness, and clearer self-understanding.
Pagina 139 - The crying need of the nation is not for better morals, cheaper bread, temperance, liberty, culture, redemption of fallen sisters and erring brothers, nor the grace, love and fellowship of the Trinity, but simply for enough money.
Pagina 106 - For the right moment you must wait, as Fabius did most patiently when warring against Hannibal, though many censured his delays; but when the time comes you must strike hard, as Fabius did, or your waiting will be in vain, and fruitless.
Pagina 142 - The great artist is he who goes a step beyond the demand, and, by supplying works of a higher beauty and a higher interest than have yet been perceived, succeeds, after a brief struggle with its strangeness, in adding this fresh extension of sense to the heritage of the race.
Pagina 92 - This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
Pagina 142 - Further, art should refine our sense of character and conduct, of justice and sympathy, greatly heightening our self-knowledge, self-control, precision of action, and considerateness, and making us intolerant of baseness, cruelty, injustice, and intellectual superficiality or vulgarity.
Pagina 142 - The claim of art to our respect must stand or fall with the validity of its pretension to cultivate and refine our senses and faculties until seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling and tasting become highly conscious and critical acts with us...
Pagina 196 - Is there nothing in Heaven but contemplation, Juan ? DON JUAN. In the Heaven I seek, no other joy. But there is the work of helping Life in its struggle upward. Think of how it wastes and scatters itself, how it raises up obstacles to itself and destroys itself in its ignorance and blindness. It needs a brain, this irresistible force, lest in its ignorance ic should resist itself.
Pagina 113 - Without being quite definitely aware of this, we yet felt it to a certain extent all along; for it was at this period that we contracted the invaluable habit of freely laughing at ourselves which has always distinguished us, and which has saved us from becoming hampered by the gushing enthusiasts who mistake their own emotions for public movements.
Pagina 196 - Here is the highest miracle of organisation yet attained by life, the most intensely alive thing that exists, the most conscious of all the organisms ; and yet, how wretched are his brains ! Stupidity made sordid and cruel by the realities learnt from toil and poverty : Imagination resolved to starve sooner than face these realities, piling up illusions to hide them, and calling itself cleverness, genius...