Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
~ Oscar Wilde
Elsewhere, this is 4a466. — slipbox
Society does not exist →
Control →
I learned then that even when I felt powerless to control my job or education — or anything else that seemed out of my hands — I always had control over my own mind and how I treated others. Even when I had nothing else, I could still be kind, just, generous, honest, loving and compassionate.
~ Susan Fowler
Elsewhere, this is 4a1138. — slipbox
Teach them →
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Elsewhere, this is 4a469. — slipbox
Always pass on good advice →
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
~ Oscar Wilde
Elsewhere, this is 4a125. — slipbox
The character of your mind →
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Elsewhere, this is 4a185. — slipbox
War is not wicked →
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
~ Oscar Wilde
Elsewhere, this is 4a174. — slipbox
Excellence is a habit →
Look at that →
In outer space you develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, “Look at that, you son of a bitch.”
~ Edgar Mitchell
Elsewhere, this is 4a549. — slipbox
Think for oneself →
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
~ Oscar Wilde
Elsewhere, this is 4a143. — slipbox
Hardly seems worth doing →
Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Elsewhere, this is 4a232. — slipbox