Man and Superman: A Comedy and a PhilosophyBrentano's, 1903 - 175 pages |
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ANARCHIST ANN rising Annie artist ashamed beauty become believe better boa constrictor brigands chair CHAUFFEUR civilization comes dare dear DEVIL DON JUAN English face father feel force G. F. Watts gentleman goes Granny guardian hand happiness heaven HECTOR hell Herbert Spencer hero honor human instinct Jack John Tanner labor lady live looks Louisa MALONE man's marriage marry masters of reality matter mean MENDOZA mind MISS RAMSDEN Miss Robinson Miss Whitefield Molière moral mother motor car murder natural never nonsense OCTAVIUS OLD WOMAN passion person play political poor Proletarian Democracy revolutionist Rhoda rising Roebuck romantic Señora sense shew Sierra sits social SOCIAL-DEMOCRAT sort soul speak STATUE STRAKER Superman suppose talk TANNER Tavy tell things tion true turns understand VIOLET whilst Whitefield wish women writing table young
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Page xxix - This is the true joy in life, the being used for a pur'pose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...
Page 205 - I will do unto others as I would they should do unto me.' 1903 GB SHAW Man & Superman 227 Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.
Page xxxiii - Effectiveness of assertion is the Alpha and Omega of style. He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none : he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him.
Page 62 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Page 216 - The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Page 197 - The only fundamental and possible Socialism is the socialization of the selective breeding of Man: in other terms, of human evolution. We must eliminate the Yahoo, or his vote will wreck the commonwealth. X. THE METHOD As to the method, what can be said as yet except that where there is a will, there is a way? If there be no will, we are lost. That is a possibility for our crazy little empire, if not for the universe; and as such possibilities are not to be entertained without despair, we must, whilst...
Page 97 - I knew what she would be like in thirty years' time. I noted the gleam of gold from a dead tooth in the laughing mouth: I made curious observations of the strange odors of the chemistry of the nerves. The visions of my romantic reveries, in which I had trod the plains of heaven with a deathless, ageless creature of coral and ivory, deserted me in that supreme hour. I remembered them and desperately strove to recover their illusion; but they now seemed the emptiest of inventions: my judgment was not...
Page 31 - Why, man, what other work has she in life but to get a husband? It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
Page 112 - The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.