Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people’s lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at creating around it an absolute uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognises infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it. It is not selfish to think for oneself. A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of ones neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions.
All the results of the mistakes of governments are quite admirable.
His people not merely live, but they live in thought. One can see them from myriad points of view. They are suggestive. There is soul in them and around them. They are interpretative and symbolic.
public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing
healthy work of art is one that has both perfection and personality
When they say a work is grossly unintelligible, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is new; when they describe a work as grossly immoral, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is true.
They degrade the classics into authorities.
We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it
Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known
Now Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
