“The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.” MenFirstsWishStepsTakenFellowsCustomsFirst StepsFellow ManDoings Author:Jacques Maritain
“Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.” IfsArtistBusinessTakenFellowsFavourUndercut Author:Elizabeth Aston
“As soon as you direct such a question outward to your fellow man and not inward to yourself, you have set yourself on a judgment seat and thereby judged yourself. You have robbed yourself of what you had won by your own continence; you have taken one step forward but ten backward: and then you have reason to weep over your obstinacy, your failure to improve, and your pride.” MenReasonStepsTakenPrideTenJudgmentDirectFellowsSeatsOver YouJudgedInwardFellow ManSteps ForwardAsceticismObstinacy Author:Tito Colliander
“Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.... storytelling is intrinsic to biological time, which we cannot escape. Life, Pascal said, is like living in a prison from which every day fellow prisoners are taken away to be executed. We are all, like Scheherazade, under sentence of death, and we all think of our lives as narratives, with beginnings, middles and ends.” ThinkingHumansSaidEndsTakenOur LivesBloodHuman NatureBreathsFellowsPrisonSentencesStorytellingNarrativePrisonerCirculationNarrationPascal Author:A. S. Byatt