If writers possess a
If writers possess a common temperament, it’s that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave. Gail Caldwell
Temperament
My co-workers expect me
My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental. Eva Gabor
If we love our
If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals…We have to be political people, I would even say passionately involved political people, each of us in the way that best suits our own temperaments, our working lives, and our own capabilities. Erich Fromm
The confusion between temperament
The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere matters of subjective taste. But differences in character are ethically of the most fundamental importance. Erich Fromm
The artist at her
The artist at her best – wild, passionate, rebellious, and human – is often too large and truthful a creature for society’s taste. The artist at her most outlandish – profane, eccentric, even a little mad – is at least as disquieting a figure. Eric Maisel
Dying visions of angels
Dying visions of angels and Christ and God and heaven are confined to credibly good men. Why do not bad men have such visions? They die of all sorts of diseases; they have nervous temperaments; they even have creeds and hopes about the future which they cling to with very great tenacity; why do not … Read more
I suppose I had
I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise. Emmeline Pankhurst
statutory regulations, legislative enactments,
statutory regulations, legislative enactments, constitutional provisions, are invasive. They never yet induced man to do anything he could and would not do by virtue of his intellect or temperament, nor prevented anything that man was impelled to do by the same dictates. Emma Goldman
Art is a corner
Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament. Emile Zola
The word realist means
The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more. Emile Zola