Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. Only in the conduct of our action can we find the sense of mastery over the Fates. Englische Studien - Pàgina 4031918Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Joseph Conrad - 1904 - 586 pàgines
...identity, filled his breast with a mournful and angry desire for action. In this his instinct was unerring. Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought...action can we find the sense of mastery over the Fates. For his action, the mine was obviously the only field. It was imperative sometimes to know how to disobey... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1904 - 600 pàgines
...identity, filled his breast with a mournful and angry desire for action. In this his instinct was unerring. Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought...friend of flattering illusions. Only in the conduct (ft our action can we find the sense of mastery over the /Fates. For his action, the mine was obviously... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 594 pàgines
...identity, filled his breast with a mournful and angry desire for action. In this his instinct was unerring. Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought...action can we find the sense of mastery over the Fates. For his action, the mine was obviously the only field. It was imperative sometimes to know how to (disobey... | |
| 1922 - 550 pàgines
...rich imaginative stuff and rarely vivid coloring, a fabric, too, woven of such wisdoms as these : — "Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought...can we find the sense of mastery over the Fates." "The value of a sentence is in the personality which utters it, for nothing new can be said by man... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 596 pàgines
...identity, filled his breast with a mournful and angry desire for action. In this his instinct was unerring. Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought...our action can we find the sense of mastery over the T*ates. For his action, the mine was obviously the only field. It was imperative sometimes to know... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1925 - 594 pàgines
...identity, filled his breast with a mournful and angry desire for action. In this his instinct was unerring. Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought...action can we find the sense of mastery over the Fates. For his action, the mine was obviously the only field It was imperative sometimes to know how to disobey... | |
| Martin Price - 1983 - 400 pàgines
...prospect which earns for Charles Gould an ironic comment which he does not hear and could hardly imagine: "Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought...action can we find the sense of mastery over the Fates" (I, 6). The enthusiasm with which Emilia later speaks of the mine, deprecating her genuine idealism... | |
| Leon Harold Craig - 1996 - 482 pàgines
...familiar with both modes of life, the "active" as well as the contemplative. As he observes in Nostromo: "Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusion. Only in the conduct of our action can we find the sense of mastery over the Fates" (part... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1996 - 428 pàgines
...and no rest in the development of material interests' (N, p. 511), and the aphorism in that novel, 'Only in the conduct of our action can we find the sense of mastery over the Fates' (N, p. 66) becomes ominous here: ... States, like most individuals, having but a feeble and imperfect... | |
| Ursula Lord - 1998 - 382 pàgines
...identity, filled his breast with a mournful and angry desire for action. In this his instinct was unerring. Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought...illusions. Only in the conduct of our action can we find a sense of mastery over the Fates" (66). The insight concerning the illusory nature of activity belongs... | |
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