I saw a good one this morning from Doug Casey: Doug Casey: First, let me draw your attention to one of my favorite quotes from Ayn Rand. When asked what should be done about the poor, she answered: “Don’t be one of them.” https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/03/d...
Yes. Trump exhibits some of the traits required, but isn't entirely "there", IMHO. However, right now he's the closest we have that can also win an election Reagan style. Trump relied too much on "experts" and got screwed by the looting Science Institute and and political Wesley Mouchs. Let's hope he's smarter if he gets elected again.
"...I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” The above quote from AS is my personal guiding beacon.
"I apologize for the intelligence of my remarks, Sir Thomas. I'd forgotten that you were a member of Parliament." • The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) [Original story by Oscar Wilde] George Sanders speaking as Lord Henry Wotton to Robert Greig as Sir Thomas
HAD to +1 that piece of appropriate humor! I remember some of that movie I saw decades ago. I suspect mcsandberg above and his friend were the smartest guys in that room.
I transcribed a bunch of comments by Lord Henry in the movie. Of course, it was really Oscar Wilde as creative cynic. George Sanders was the ideal actor, being as cynical as his character. For example: Sanders told David Niven in 1937 that he intended to commit suicide when he got older. In 1972 he took a barbiturate overdose and left this note, “Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.”
Now the movie quotes.
To get back my youth, I'd do anything except get up early, take exercise, or be respectable. No civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is. One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. But adoring someone is certainly better than being adored. Being adored is a nuisance. You'll discover, Dorian, that women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us and keep bothering us to do something for them. I'm analyzing women at present. The subject is less difficult than I was led to believe. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. I suppose in a fortnight or so, we shall be told he's been seen in San Francisco. It's an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world.
Sir Thomas: You must admit that women give men the very gold of their lives. Lord Henry: But they invariably want it back in such small change. Women, as a witty Frenchman put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.
Thanks for posting! Gems of wisdom, but I won't be following Sanders. Gosh, the witty Frenchman in the end has described a few experiences of my own, LOL!
"Witty Frenchman"? Who in any of what I wrote is/was a Frenchman? Real persons: Oscar Wilde was Irish, born in Dublin. George Sanders was a British subject born to British parents in St. Petersburg, Russia. David Niven was British, born in London. Robert Greig was Australian, born in Melbourne. I am American, born in Passaic, New Jersey. Fictional Characters: Dorian Gray, Lord Henry Wotton, and Sir Thomas were all British.
Or am I completely missing something about a Frenchman mentioned somewhere else in the Ayn Rand discussion topic?
Along with the saying that will open the door to the mind (BobCat) comment which I have on the wall of my office -"The greatest virtue of all - that I was a woman who made money. Supreme ruling of my life - Reason-Purpose-Self Esteem - Logic
Doug Casey: First, let me draw your attention to one of my favorite quotes from Ayn Rand. When asked what should be done about the poor, she answered: “Don’t be one of them.”
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/03/d...
The above quote from AS is my personal guiding beacon.
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) [Original story by Oscar Wilde]
George Sanders speaking as Lord Henry Wotton to Robert Greig as Sir Thomas
George Sanders was the ideal actor, being as cynical as his character. For example:
Sanders told David Niven in 1937 that he intended to commit suicide when he got older. In 1972 he took a barbiturate overdose and left this note, “Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.”
Now the movie quotes.
To get back my youth, I'd do anything except get up early, take exercise, or be respectable.
No civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
But adoring someone is certainly better than being adored. Being adored is a nuisance. You'll discover, Dorian, that women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us and keep bothering us to do something for them.
I'm analyzing women at present. The subject is less difficult than I was led to believe. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
I suppose in a fortnight or so, we shall be told he's been seen in San Francisco. It's an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world.
Sir Thomas:
You must admit that women give men the very gold of their lives.
Lord Henry:
But they invariably want it back in such small change. Women, as a witty Frenchman put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.
Real persons: Oscar Wilde was Irish, born in Dublin. George Sanders was a British subject born to British parents in St. Petersburg, Russia. David Niven was British, born in London. Robert Greig was Australian, born in Melbourne. I am American, born in Passaic, New Jersey.
Fictional Characters: Dorian Gray, Lord Henry Wotton, and Sir Thomas were all British.
Or am I completely missing something about a Frenchman mentioned somewhere else in the Ayn Rand discussion topic?