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23 search results for "Oscar Wilde"

  1. tyrannies over body and soul
    There is the despot who tyrannises over the body (Prince). There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul (Pope). There is the despot who
    #authority
  2. perfections charity and conformity
    There are as many perfections as there are imperfect men. And while to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of
    #conformity
  3. sympathy with joy is naturally rare
    When man has realised Individualism, he will also realise sympathy and exercise it freely and spontaneously. All sympathy is fine, but sympathy with
    #individuality #sympathy #suffering
  4. selfishness and altruism
    from The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891), Oscar Wilde: exaggerated altruistic virtues original virtue through disobedience selfishness is to
    #egocentric #benevolence #subject
  5. art is individualism
    George Orwell summarised, “In effect, the world will be populated by artists, each striving after perfection in the way that seems best to
    #individuality #artist #quotes #subject
  6. progress is the realisation of Utopias
    Progress is the realisation of Utopias. A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one
    #future #artist
  7. confusion of private property
    Property has so many duties that its possession to any large extent involves endless claims upon one, endless attention to business. If property had
    #property #security #individuality #materialism
  8. the state as a voluntary association
    There is no such thing as governing mankind, as a wise man once said, there is such a thing as leaving mankind alone. All modes of government are
    #authority #society
  9. the slavery of the machine
    It is mentally and morally injurious to man to do anything in which he does not find pleasure. It is impossible to sweep the streets with mental,
    #technology #culture
  10. individualism and family life
    Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which presses so hardly upon almost everybody now. It annihilates family
    #individuality #property
  11. public beauty and novelty
    The one thing that the public dislike is novelty. The vitality and progress of art depend in a large measure on the continual extension of
    #culture #artist #conformity
  12. philosophy in interpretative symbolic fiction
    His people not merely live, but they live in thought. One can see them from myriad points of view. They are suggestive. There is soul in them and
    #fiction
  13. pain provisional mode of realisation
    The terrible truth that pain is a mode through which man may realise himself exercises a wonderful fascination over the world, it is rarely in the
  14. individualism realisation receptivity and imagination
    art as mode of individualism true artist and amusing craftsman create for the artistic joy receptivity and imaginative medium be thyself and the
    #artist #individuality #imagination
  15. original virtue through disobedience
    Man’s original virtue is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. Sometimes the poor are
    #disobedience
  16. social classes partial realisation
    No class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them … The
    #culture #individuality
  17. exaggerated altruistic virtues
    Altruistic impulses of charity, benevolence, and the like are admirable, though misdirected intentions — degrade and demoralise … It is much more
    #altruism #benevolence #artist
  18. principles
    An ongoing exercise of radical introspection expressed through first-person singular writing, the slash-principles page serves as a fluid document that reflects my evolving truths, beliefs, and principles. Discomfort is not an enemy, it’s a teacher! Each tenet is shaped and refined by the hard choices I make, aligning with my personal raison d'être and ikigai.
    #resistance #practice #choice #autotelic #values
  19. true artist and amusing craftsman
    The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself, takes no notice whatever of the public, a beautiful
    #artist #culture
  20. change predictable human quality
    The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes, change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail
    #change
  21. to sympathise with a friend’s success
    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
    #individuality #sympathy
  22. journalism supplies insatiable curiosity
    The public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the
    #experts #mimetic #journalism
  23. russia perfection by pain
    No one who lived in modern Russia could possibly realise his perfection except by pain. A few Russian artists have realised themselves in Art; in a
    #suffering #medieval #artist