Oscar Wilde, The Soul Of Man Under Socialism Quotes
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.
The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
It is rarely in the world's history that its ideal has been one of joy and beauty. The worship of pain has far more often dominated the world.
To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote ‘King Lear.
It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.
Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.
For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.