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Hands off: neither the whole of truth nor the whole of good is revealed to any single observer, although each observer gains a partial superiority of insight from the peculiar position in which he stands

Hunger som glädjegrundande

Fools and bores judge others by themselves.

We should often be ashamed of our noblest actions, could the world read our motives.

Whatever disgrace we have deserved, it is almost always within our power to rehabilitate our reputations.

We rarely praise anyone who does not admire us.

Circumstances make us known to others, and still more to ourselves.

The greatest of all Love’s miracles is curing coquetry.

No woman fully fathoms her coquetry.

It is harder to be faithful to a mistress when she is gracious than when she is abusive.

It is a great mistake to believe that only violent passions, such as love and ambition, can make us masters of others. Laziness with all its indolence is often the most absolute sovereign.

Pity is often a perception of our own troubles through the woes of others; it is a clever anticipation of the misfortunes which may befall us.

uppenbarligen bör jag läsa om wordsworth

The cleverest men go through life decrying trickery either to be in a position to deceive in a crisis, or to achieve a great ambition.

A wise man co-ordinates his interests, and develops them according to their merits. Cupidity defeats its own ends by following so many at once that in our greed for trifles we lose sight of important matters.

Positive stereotypes

Our strength exceeds our will-power; hence we often excuse our failures by pleading the impossibility of success.

A man condemned to die often affects a firmness and a scorn of death which, at bottom, are but his fear of facing it. And this stoicism is to his mind what the bandage is to his eyes.

Enthusiasm is the only convincing orator; it is like the infallible rule of some function of Nature. An enthusiastic simpleton is more persuasive than a silver-tongued orator.

Passion often makes idiots of the wisest men, and clever men of fools.

virtue not necessarily chosen

människans tendens att ignorera varnadra

Det är befriande att läsa Le Corbusier kallad charlatan.

metadiskurs som ideologisk praktik

Gud, detta är pinsamt. hur tränar vi dygd? genom imitation, och därefter går scruton igenom den traditionella bilden av dygdtriangulering. och jag konstaterar att jag känner mig som en idiot.

knowing what

faran med passiv rekreation

diskussion om saken i relation till dess benämning. detta är viktigt. johannes av damaskus igen.

Kantian terms this means that what is in question in this
bordering is not a limit (Schrank e) that knows no exteriority, but a thresh-
old (Grenze), that is, a point of contact with an external space that must
remain empty.

imprecision" and a mannerist stereotype. (Here too, Scardanelli's protocol-laden language is the herald that announces the prose pieces of Berne or Waldau a century early.)