"Darwin was wrong. Man's still an ape"

-- Jerome Lawrence

#Men Quotes #Apes Quotes #Stills Quotes

“Mostly things that have happened to me, feelings that I've had, but on a couple of occasions I've written about things that have happened to other people.”
“But my message to people with or without a condition is the fact that you can still do anything you set your mind to. You just have to do it in a slightly different way than other people.”
“All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words are almost synonymous. Negativity ranges from irritation or impatience to fierce anger, from a depressed mood or sullen resentment to suicidal despair. Sometimes the resistance triggers the emotional pain body”
“Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible.”
“The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.”
“There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.”
“I'd wear flip-flops and jeans. I guess that's not cool.”
“The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.”

Source : "Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times". Book by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, the edition by Philip Ayres, 1999.

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