"Because to influence a person is to give him one's
own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his
natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there
are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one
else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The
aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly --
that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves,
nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that
one owes to oneself. Of course they are charitable. They feed the
hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are
naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it.
The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God,
which is the secret of religion -- these are the two things that govern
us.”
(Page 16)
(Page 16)
Még mindig igaz..
VálaszTörlésAz, sajnos.
TörlésA könyvet nem tudom olvastad-e már, ha esetleg még nem, akkor ajánlom. Nekem nagyon tetszik. :)
Még nem, bár magát a történetet ismerem, de nem fogom kihagyni.
VálaszTörlés