"Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good -- we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know -- and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them."

-- W. H. Auden

#Helping Others Quotes #Men Quotes #Earth Quotes

“Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality...”
“From Britain's point of view the 1939 war had been a liberal war which had been entered into in a condition of moral indignation without the resources to fight it, that it had been providential good fortune which had placed the burden of fighting on the Russians and the Americans.”

Source : Maurice Cowling (1990). “Mill and Liberalism”, p.15, Cambridge University Press
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.”

Source : Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.87, Simon and Schuster
“Comedy is rarely funny.”
“Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.”
“A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.”
“A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.”
“If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.”

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