 I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. That is the law of my life. That is the working within me of Life's incessant aspiration...  The Table Talk of John Selden - Page 109by John Selden - 1892 - 220 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1905 - 606 pages
...infinite comedy of illusion.' But Juan is not to be detained. ' As long,' he says, ' as ' I can see something better than myself, I cannot be easy ' unless...clearing ' the way for it. That is the law of my life. That is the ' working within me of life's incessant aspiration to higher ' organisation, wider, deeper,... | |
 | Bernard Shaw - 1903 - 316 pages
...have everything that disappointed me without anything that I have not already tried and found wanting. I tell you that as long as I can conceive something...clearing the way for it. That is the law of my life. That is the working within me of Life's incessant aspiration to higher organization, wider, deeper,... | |
 | Frederick William Bussell - Christian ethics - 1907 - 394 pages
...inconceivable order of things. " I tell you," says Don Juan in Mr. Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman, — " I tell you that, as long as I can conceive something...clearing the way for it. That is the law of my life. That is the working within me of Life's incessant aspiration to higher organisation, wider, deeper,... | |
 | Holbrook Jackson - 1907 - 254 pages
...something finer, than the working of the world's desire for something better. " I tell you," he says, " that as long as I can conceive something better than...clearing the way for it. That is the law of my life. That is the working within me of Life's incessant aspiration to higher organisation, wider, deeper,... | |
 | Renée M. Deacon - 1910 - 116 pages
...' \ Bernard Shaw Don Juan, bored to extinction in hell: " I tell you that as long as I can-conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless...clearing the way for it. That is the law of my life. That is the working within me of Life's incessant aspiration to higher organization, wider, deeper,... | |
 | Percival Presland Howe - English drama - 1913 - 270 pages
...assist in the evolution of a better kind of theatre. " I tell you," says Don Juan in Man and Superman, " that as long as I can conceive something better than...bring it into existence or clearing the way for it." But Mr. Bernard Shaw's attitude towards the theatre has not so much been one of striving and clarifying... | |
 | Frank Wadleigh Chandler - Drama - 1914 - 524 pages
...cannot be done except by living men and women." Don Juan expounds the idea more fully. " I tell you'that as long as I can conceive something better than myself,...clearing the way for it. That is the law of my life." To his faith in individualism and instinct, Shaw adds his faith in reality. In "Fanny's First Play,"... | |
 | Frank Wadleigh Chandler - Drama - 1924 - 500 pages
...because it cannot be done except by living men and women." Don Juan expounds the idea more fully. " I tell you that as long as I can conceive something...clearing the way for it. That is the law of my life." To his faith in individualism and instinct, Shaw adds his faith in reality. In "Fanny's First Play,"... | |
 | Bernard Shaw - English drama - 1903 - 294 pages
...have everything that disappointed me without anything that I have not already tried and found wanting. I tell you that as long as I can \ . conceive something...existence or clearing the way for it. ~ That is the law "oT my liTe7 That is the working within me of Life's incessant aspiration to higher organization, wider,... | |
 | Hendrik De Man - Political Science - 524 pages
...Shaw describes this temperament through the mouth of Don Juan, in the third act of Man and Superman : "As long as I can conceive something better than myself,...clearing the way for it. That is the law of my life. That is the working within me of life's incessant aspiration to higher organisation, wider, deeper,... | |
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