What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard ShawRead
Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the importance of nourishing the soul with beauty, art, and meaningful relationships.
In this exchange, Captain Shotover and Ellie discuss the idea that the soul thrives on experiences and beauty. Ellie lists various aspects of life that feed her soul—music, art, nature, and relationships—implying that a fulfilling life involves appreciating and engaging with the world around us. It suggests that our inner well-being is deeply influenced by the beauty and goodness we allow into our lives.
In practice
In a motivational speech about the importance of creativity.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.
My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether or not you choose to make full use of it.
Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.
Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.
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