What did John Galt mean by: The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle. - John Galt Novelist · Scotland Copy
+ Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Galt, Evil, 0 - John Galt Novelist · Scotland
+ A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Galt, Body, Soul, 0 - John Galt Novelist · Scotland
+ Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Galt, Mind, Survival, 0 - John Galt Novelist · Scotland
+ To rule without being felt…is the great mystery of policy. Feraz Zeid, June 28, 2023December 12, 2023, John Galt, Felt, Mystery, Policy, 0 - John Galt Novelist · Scotland
+ No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Galt, Mind, Modest, 0 - John Galt Novelist · Scotland
+ A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Galt, 0 - John Galt Novelist · Scotland
+ It’s not that I don’t suffer, it’s that I know the unimportance of suffering. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Galt, Suffering, 0 - John Galt Novelist · Scotland
+ I seek no values by means of evil, nor do I surrender my values to evil. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Galt, Evil, Surrender, 0 - John Galt Novelist · Scotland
One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself. - Jean-Francois de La Harpe Playwright · France
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
All human actions are equivalent… and all are on principle doomed to failure. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France