“What I didn't understand was that the personal and the political go together. I felt at the time I had to sacrifice my children's present for their future. It seemed an either/or. I didn't realise that by being with one's own children I would have had a better understanding of the ones who are not my own. I was thinking of them but I didn't spend the time that they needed from me. It's a tribute to them that they came out so well.” ThinkingWellsChildrenTogetherPoliticalFeltUnderstandingMy OwnSacrificeNeededMy ChildrenRealisingTributeEither Or Author:Vanessa Redgrave
“With all thy getting, get understanding, is the banner under which these Forbes editorials have appeared since the first issue of the publication. We have no illusions about what great wealth can do and what it cannot do. We believe in the worthwhileness of striving by all worthy means to attain success and to attain wealth. Simply because we are convinced that no amount of money is worth the sacrifice of one's better instincts, of one's self-respect-of one's soul, if you wish-simply because we are convinced that riches not gained legitimately and decently are not worth having.” IfsFirstsBelieveMeanSoulSelfWishUnderstandingCan DoWealthIssuesSacrificeAmountIllusionInstinctStriveWorthyRichesConvincedSelf RespectPublicationBannerEditorialsForbes Author:B. C. Forbes
“The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.” FirstsHumansMayDoeHas BeensForceUnderstandingSupportSacrificeAuthorityPrejudiceAddContraryViolentConclusionInstanceDistinctionRejectsDespiseSkepticismConfirmationPrepositions Author:Francis Bacon
“But beneath it all will run that Sicilian understanding that the underside of joy is grief, that the face of sacrifice and suffering is the dark mirror image of pleasure and enjoyment, that every moment of arrival is to be treasured and enjoyed in the full knowledge that it has brought us a moment closer to the moment of departure.” MomentsRunningFacesJoySufferingUnderstandingDarkPleasureGriefSacrificeMirrorsEnjoyedEnjoymentDepartureArrivalsTreasuredSicilianMirror Image Book:Sicilian Odyssey Source: Sicilian Odyssey
“[Sacrifice of Isaac] is a major theme of the so-called Elohist [one authorial strand in the Pentateuch]. It is marked by all of his linguistic characteristics, and so on. We cannot determine what is historical and what isn't. As literary critics, we would understand the importance of this for understanding life, destiny. But the historical question must be left with a question mark.” LeftUnderstandingDestinySacrificeMajorsImportanceMarkHistoricalCriticsDetermineCharacteristicsThemeStrandsIsaacQuestion MarkUnderstanding LifeLife Destiny Author:Frank Moore Cross
“The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have a terror of losing my freedom. Free, without ties, unpossessed by any possessions, free to do as one will, to go at a moment's notice wherever the fancy may suggest--it is good. But so is this place. Might it not be better? To gain freedom one sacrifices something [...] and all that these things and people signify. One sacrifices something--for a greater gain in knowledge, in understanding, in intensified living? I sometimes wonder.” PeopleMaySometimesMomentsMightUnderstandingWonderGreaterSacrificeLosingGainsRootsTerrorPossessionChainsTiesFancyWhy NotGlobes Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point