Allgemein / Generally Angemessen / Reasonable Beschämend / Shameful Beschämt / Ashamed Dumm / Silly Jene / Those Leidenschaften / Passions Mann / Man Natürlich / Natural Stolz / Proud
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful.
There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag?
If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.
Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.
