| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1876 - 40 páginas
...like a paradox has often asserted itself, viz.: That a man's worst difficulties begin when he is ablei to do as he likes. So long as a man is struggling with obstacles, he has an excuse for failure 01 shortcoming; but when fortune removes them all, and gives him 1he power of doing as he thinks best,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - 324 páginas
...and full as vain.* Also of Coleridge's words, "In To-day already walks To-morrow"; and Huxley's, too, "A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes." The doctor's declaration as to the effect of physical upon spiritual conditions reminds us of Lord... | |
| Brander Matthews - 1903 - 372 páginas
...and too flexible to keep those who made use of it up to a high standard; as Huxley pithily put it, "a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes." In the English drama we cannot but remark a certain jerkiness of the action as the place jumps from... | |
| Rev. S. Pollock Linn - 1881 - 472 páginas
...Richter. THINGS were worse at Arcola I Napoleon. TBY to understand yourself and things generally. Goethe. A MAN'S worst difficulties begin when he is able to. do as he likes. Huxley. THE passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable.... | |
| Frances Campbell Berkeley Young - 1910 - 502 páginas
...distribution of the testator's benefactions. In my experience of life a truth which sounds very 20 much like a paradox has often asserted itself; namely,...removes them all and gives him the power of doing 25 as he thinks best, then comes the time of trial. There is but one right, and the possibilities of... | |
| Elsa Baiz de Gelpi - 1987 - 208 páginas
...They are: choosing, planning, concentrating. lU. First and most important is choosing, or selecting. "A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes," wrote TH Huxley. Then he has to select, and how much he accomplishes depends upon how well he selects.... | |
| Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 páginas
...Regulus is speaking. 645 When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. 646 A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, address on university education, delivered at the formal opening of The Johns... | |
| Barry D. Riccio - 1994 - 264 páginas
...fathers, but rather that they had rejected belief per se. To be sure, man was freer than ever before, but "a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes."101 Well before Erich Fromm or Jean-Paul Sartre, Lippmann realized that freedom could be a burden... | |
| Dimitris Bourantonis, Marios L. Evriviades - 1996 - 412 páginas
...problem is his unfettered freedom, "The Fear of Freedom", in Erich Fromm's expression? Was it true that man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes? A third common feature is that the rupture of both "Inherited Conglomerates" caused such uncertainty... | |
| James Russell - 2001 - 128 páginas
...HARRY approaches. DICK I feel an emptiness inside, like grasping a shadow, a persistent ache. HARRY A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he pleases . (beat) You miss her? DICK I didn't think I would. True Bums - A Comedy Screenplay - 94 HARRY... | |
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