Shaw, Bernard : George (1856-1950) British playwright whose prefaces to his plays best express his passion for social reform. In 1925, he got Nobel Prize for Literature.
... Shakespeare, , 120, 160, 182, 194, 197, 251, 337 -Hamlet, 185, 188n., 386n -King Lear, 185 -Mm;beth, 185 Shankaracharya, 8, 215-16, 229, 276 Shaw, Bernard, 140, 145, 254 -Back to Methuselah, 140 Shelley, 194 Shiva, 268 Shivaji,93, 394, 396 Shylock, 100 Sisupala, 80 Socrates, 16, 150,219-20 ...
... 440 Shakespeare, William 7, 50, 309, 311, 312, 341,366,371,395,412,419,425,458 Page 496 Shankara 30 Shaw, Bernard 400, 436 Shelley, P.B. 309,315 Somadeva 48 Spengler, Oswald 400 Spiegelberg, Frederic 53 Stacc.W.T. 272 Stambler, Bernard 272, 380 Stanford ...
... 101 Semitic Dynasty, 88 Serpent Goddess, 100 Sewell, 70, 71 Shah Tepe, 69, 71-2, 75, 77 Shahi Tump, 5, 6 Shakespeare, 91 Sharma, A.K., 100 Shaw, Bernard, 90 Shelley, i Shimalia, 67 Shiva, Śiva, 41, 43-5 Shubiluliuma, 31 Sialk, 4, 68, 69, 71, 76 Sigrus, 127 Sind, 65, 62, 97 Sistan, 5 Snoy ...
... concept of the British Commonwealth of Nations — Jawaharlal Nehru could not have acted more appropriately than by meeting that master of surprise and paradox, Bernard Shaw. Nor could he have done anything more appropriate at the meeting than giving Shaw not the usual presents one might anticipate, such as a tiny model of the Taj Mahal or a statuette of Nataraja or a pocket edition of the Bhagavad Gita, but... profound gesture, then, can be read in Nehru's action, conveying to Shaw the truth and beauty of historical India in the shape of the mango. But an added touch of the sympathetic imagination may be found if we realise that no other figure among the intellectuals in England could be so fitting a recipient of this delicacy as Shaw. Shaw is the most emphatic voice raised there against what he considers... impudent yet patriarchal Shaw. The most profoundly Shavian association, however, of the mango is by way of a pun. And this pun drives home also the most luminous philosophy that has sprung up on Indian soil in our day — the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo — and filled what in Shaw is but visionary aspiration with a concrete substance and practicality beyond his dreams. Often has Shaw declared that the mere ...
... Gupta - Vol. 1 An Evolutionary Problem THE London Times Literary Supplement (July 27, 1946), in the course of a critical estimate of Bernard Shaw, writes: "Mr. Shaw pats Lamarck on the back and accepts his theory that 'living organisms change because they want to'. If you have no eyes and want to see and keep trying to see, you will finally ...
... the statement that Chaucer could not have lived as early as A.D. 1000. For he knows not only that the language is continually changing, but also its approximate rate of change. The language of Bernard Shaw is evidently not that of Byron, and Byron's language differs distinctly 1. "The Aryan Problem", The Vedic Age, Page 90 from that of Samuel Johnson. The rate of change... bhāsā-forxm, on the other. Now, the difference between Pānini's language and the language of the Rg-Veda is certainly not greater than that between, say, the forms of English used by Chaucer and Bernard Shaw. The conclusion is justified therefore that, whatever the date of the contents of the Rg-Veda, its language can by no means be dated much earlier than 1000 B.C." 2 As for those "contents", Ghosh... the Gāthās as Old High German from the language of Ulfila's Gothic Bible. Nor, because the amount of linguistic change between the Rigveda and Pānini is not greater than that between Chaucer and Bernard Shaw, can we mechanically extrapolate to the former the 600 years of the latter. "Languages," says the philologist Simeon Potter, "change at different speeds, and English has certainly changed more quickly ...
... in the English theatre — G. Bernard Shaw. Not that Shaw can stand anywhere near Shakespeare as a creator of character or as a maker of imaginative literature. I would call him more playwright than dramatist, thus distinguishing his versatile cleverness and effective constructiveness from Shakespeare kaleidoscopic vision and organic elan. But Shaw's plays and Shaw's personal criticism threw into... their authorship than this outstanding literary figure of the times." Against this argument we have only to drag Bernard Shaw in. Not that Shaw has written on behalf of Shakespeare as the author of the dramas. But Shaw in his own way is precisely what Shakespeare could have been. Shaw has himself said that he had no proper school-education, leave aside a university degree. In fact, when he was once... Englishness too as seen in its aspect of Godhead. Naturally, Shaw's "debunking" of the Bard was much resented, and there is indeed a touch of wrong-headedness in the importance Shaw attached to what he called the realistic and intellectual drama, the drama of social problems and their discussion. Ibsen and Strindberg were to Shaw more momentous dramatists than Shakespare because they challenged ...
... Englishmen themselves know how to use their own tongue well. Bernard Shaw has remarked that no Englishman can open his mouth to speak his own language without your learning to hate him. This piece of typical Shavian paradox means that even Englishmen must consciously train themselves to speak if they are to achieve English worth hearing. Shaw is famous for his neat inversion of common opinion in... the ballot-box. What was the comment of Bernard Shaw? He said, "Thank God women are at last equal to men. I can now kick a woman with impunity." This hits us in the eye with the truth that being officially equal is not an unmitigated advantage for women and can in fact rob them of certain privileges and superiorities enjoyed by them in private. Shaw's itch to kick an Englishman as soon as he ...
... from Sri Aurobindo on the Irish genius, Bernard Shaw. The passage is of a serious nature but deals with the subject of humour. This will show Sri Aurobindo as a critic with his keen observation, penetrating analysis, luminous insight and powerfully felicitous expression. Sri Aurobindo's Estimate of Bernard Shaw "I do not think Harris' attack on Shaw as you describe it can be taken very seriously... savour. If his extravagant comparison of himself with Shakespeare had to be taken in dull earnest without any smile in it, he will be either a witless ass or a giant of humourless arrogance, - and Bernard Shaw could be neither...." 2 Let us now taste some specimens of Sri Aurobindo's humour on various matters 'literary'. (1) "Don't differentiate between Rama and Shyama, brother]" (The... him. Wells, Chesterton, Shaw and others joust at each other like the Kabliwalas of old Calcutta, though with more refined weapons, and you cannot take their humorous sparrings as considered appreciations; if you do, you turn exquisite jests into solemn nonsense. Mark that their method in these sparrings, the turn of phrase, the style of their wit is borrowed from Shaw himself with personal mod ...
... day the simpler, more curbed, more conversational style has found greater favour, but here too there are degrees and few modern styles are quite as bare and restrained as Swift's at his best. Even Bernard Shaw who has been most compared with Swift has his flourishes, his rhetorical colours and complications. And, apropos of Sparkenbroke , at once the most richly and the most subtly written of Charles... or there is no other go than to leave one to one's own certitude." Two-thirds of the above pronouncement — the reference to the word "great" and to T. S. Eliot — echoes almost the words of Bernard Blackstone in his Advanced English for Foreign Students (page 264). And there is some sound advice in the pronouncement. But one is afraid Blackstone himself is a little too anxious to save the ...
... savour. If his extravagant comparison of himself with Shakespeare had to be taken in dull earnest without any smile in it, he would be either a witless ass or a giant of humourless arrogance,—and Bernard Shaw could be neither. As to his position in literature, I have given my opinion; but, more precisely, I imagine that he will take some place but not a very large place, once the drums have ceased... against Russell and Darwin against Darwin, and let us come to the point [ incomplete ] Shaw I do not think Harris' attack on Shaw as you describe it can be taken very seriously any more than can Wells' jest about his pronunciation of English being the sole astonishing thing about him. Wells, Chesterton, Shaw and others joust at each other like the kabiwālās of old Calcutta, though with more refined... English mind never understood Shaw and yet allowed itself to be captured by him, and its old established ideas, "moral" positions, impenetrable armour of commercialised Puritanism and self-righteous Victorian assurance to be ravaged and burned out of existence by Shaw and his allies. Anyone who knew Victorian England and sees the difference now cannot but be struck by it and Shaw's part in it, at least in ...
... Nagin has divulged that he had six long years of sadhana-stoppage. During this period he had started a systematic reading of great literary works. For example, he went through all the plays of Bernard Shaw. One day, when he was standing at the Samadhi, suddenly the sadhana started on its own. Evidently the stoppage was a period of inner assimilation brought about by the Guru. A notable experience ...
... would they have been, had there been no power of imagination, though Shakespeare confines imagination to the possession of a pack of poets, lovers and madmen! 142 I think some of you have read Bernard Shaw's St. Joan drama where her inquisitors accuse her, saying that the voices she used to hear were all born of her imagination, to which she replies, "That is how the messages of God come to us... compact." Spoken by Theseus in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, Scene i, Lines 7-8. 143 Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play In Six Scenes And An Epilogue (1924) by George Bernard Shaw, Scene I. Page 97 as Hamlet says, we have to sometimes draw our "breath in pain", 144 where imagination is a door of escape to a happier world. When your life is measured out ...
... singer in the same category with the harlot. It may also be remembered in this connection that portraiture and image making are prohibited in the Hebrew and the Mohammedan religions. ¹ Bernard Shaw has given the name of hell to one such world, vide his play Man and Superman. Page 97 The poet says, The good that is awake in the midst of all conflicts Is the good ...
... free to collaborate with the 'Combatant'; being redeemed himself, he was free to participate in the movement for the redemption of the race. The Combatant is also God, he is the Life Force of Bernard Shaw, he is Bergson's é lan -vital, "the onrushing force through all of creation which strives for purer and more rarefied freedom." 61 God is a perpetual Becoming. One after another, the peaks ...
... but would not, or he neither could nor would, or he both would and could. If he would but could not, he is impotent, if he could but would not, he is perverse, if he neither 1. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish dramatist, received the 1925 Nobel prize. His views on the Jewish-Christian God are strikingly similar to Anatole France's. He dubbed Christianity 'Crossianity.' Page 176... mind which tears off the mask and refuses to accept current ideas, thoughts and opinions. It is a kind of solvent. Man must have the courage to see the Truth as it is without any deception about it. Shaw 1 has got that critical mind to a great extent and we find the same in Anatole France." And here is Sri Aurobindo on Anatole France. Dilip Kumar Roy once sent Sri Aurobindo a quotation from ...
... Dilip went to England he met Bernard Shaw. Dilip thought that his father D. L. Roy was the foremost poet of India, even greater than Rabindranath. Dilip told Bernard Shaw that his father had unfortunately died very early otherwise he would have been an even greater poet than Rabindranath. Bernard Shaw listened to him and kept silent for a while. Then Shaw said: "Let it be Dilip. You remember ...
... angry! My desire to grow a beard was partly due to him and my father and partly to Bernard Shaw. Shaw's beard had become symbolic of his attitude to the follies of his time - an attitude which remained throughout his life so that an admirer of his, Gerald Bullett, could say: "The only difference between Shaw young and Shaw old is that his beard which was once red with anger is now white with rage!" ...
... razors trying to shave his beard and advised him against being clean-shaven. About Bernard Shaw, the critic and iconoclast and humbug-hater, it was reported that his satiric temper remained unabated in his old Page 198 age and that we could suggestively declare: "The only difference between Shaw young and Shaw old is that his beard which was red with anger is now white with rage!" To ...
... for the world is really so? The Grand Inquisitors roasted Jews and Protestants in the sincere belief that they were benefiting not only the world but even the souls of their poor victims! As Bernard Shaw has been at pains to explain, even Joan of Arc was burned with the most pious and society-preserving motives! Perhaps you will say I am choosing extreme instances. I have taken them to emphasise ...
... put into it by the moderns. So, instead of writing a pamphlet they write a novel, instead of delivering a sermon they write a story, even they write a story for journalistic purpose. It is like Bernard Shaw writing his dramas. All his characters are meant only to represent different sides of questions which he takes up in his drama. Page 292 ...
... "1 have been keeping my eyes skinned for the use of 'the Divine' in English. Casually turning the pages of Bernard Shaw's Three Plays for Puritans in the Penguin Edition, what do I chance upon on pp. 133-34? In the 'Prologue' to his play 'Caesar and Cleopatra' included here Shaw imagines an Egyptian god addressing the modern audience. Towards the end of the 'Prologue' the god says: '...I had ...
... formation of hanging loose ends, (laughter) But whether my beard was appropriate to me is another question. I said I wanted to look like Bernard Shaw. Undoubtedly Shaw's beard was very expressive of him, particularly by its colour. A wit has said, "When Shaw was young, his beard was red with anger, and when he became old it grew white with rage." (laughter) My beard was not white at that time,... think I have had any invasion of jealousy. Before proceeding further I may hark back for a minute to my blessed beard. Although I have said it was not expressive of any indignation a la Shaw at the follies of the age (least of all at my own follies), it did play a certain expressive role. On the one side it mildly suggested what Sri Aurobindo and the Mother thought was quite evident — namely ...
... pronunciation. I remembered an incident mentioned by Bernard Shaw in the preface to his Back to Methuselah. Shaw was a small boy at the time it occurred. He was with his nurse who was buying something at a local bookstall. A fat elderly man entered, advanced to the counter and said pompously, "Have you the works of the celebrated Buffoon?" Shaw comments in his preface that his own works were at that ...
... general for the character of that extremely gifted figure of the trench stage during the Mother's days in Paris. Page 148 Discussing mental detachment, the Mother referred to Bernard Shaw: "He has a mind completely free from conventions. It stands apart and can look at things as well as at ideas with an unattached power. Beyond this I cannot say anything about his mental quality ...
... but thinkers and creators—except a certain class of them. An intellectual or intellectual thinker will then be one who is a thinker by his reason or mainly by his reason—e.g. Bertrand Russell, Bernard Shaw, Wells etc. Tagore thinks by vision, imagination, feeling or by intuition, not by the reason—at least that is true of his writings. C. R. Das himself would not be an intellectual; in politics, ...
... instrument of transformation for bringing about desirable changes in human society. In speaking of Bernard Shaw, Sri Aurobindo wrote in the '30s inter alia: "... An ostentation of humour and parade covers up the attack and puts the opponent off his defence. That is why the English mind never understood Shaw and yet allowed itself to be captured by him, and its old established ideas, 'moral' positions... positions, impenetrable armour of commercialised puritanism and self-righteous Victorian assurance to be ravaged and burned out of existence by Shaw and his allies. Anyone who knew Victorian England and sees the difference now cannot but be struck by it, and Shaw's part in it, at least in preparing and making it possible, is undeniable." 1 And what about Cervantes with his immortal creation Don Quixote ...
... line he is logopoeic in perhaps the worst way in all poetic history. The correct description of the way is found in the very line, which reads: In a most hideous and dreadful manner. When Bernard Shaw once heard Mrs Patrick Campbell say this line he could not believe Shakespeare could have perpetrated anything so bad. He accused her of having improvised it to cover up a lapse of memory. Shakespeare ...
... "the Open Conspiracy" by which a "Capitalist-ridden" world is to be saved? The same humanitarian conscience anxious to spare an almighty Maker the responsibility of an imperfect world has compelled Bernard Shaw to conceive his Life Force as a blind stumbling experimenting urge towards perfection. Vivekananda being a true Indian, could not be Wellsian or Shavian and forego the Supreme and the Perfect: he ...
... organic entity with an intenser level of general consciousness. A half-serious half-fantastic play on the notion of this possibility is the neo-vitalism of Bernard Shaw, the development of the Nietzschean nisus into the hopes and dreams of what Shaw has termed Creative Evolution. The evolutionary concept also underlines the value of the outer instrument of the inner vitality: if the natural is not to ...
... writes so authoritatively and thought-provokingly. The vision of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, mysticism, yoga, philosophy - both eastern and western - literature, especially his treatise on Bernard Shaw, Shakespeare and other English poets and authors, sociology, politics, Einstein, Teilhard de Chardin are all subjects in which he is completely at home. Moreover he made his presence strongly ...
... the plays is not only their success as literature but also their being packed with versatile learning. One has, however, just to point out Bernard Shaw and ask: What efficient school-education did he have to equip him for his excellence in the field of letters? Shaw is nowhere near Shakespeare as a creative genius, but the fact stands that, without academic education, he could write brilliantly, wittily ...
... of the English language to change "shun" into "shn". Has the decisive change taken place since 1931? Moreover in the recent dispute about the standard Broadcast pronunciation, the decisions of Bernard Shaw's committee were furiously disputed—if Fowler and Ox ford were "papal authorities" in England for current speech—it is current speech the Committee was trying to fix through the broadcasts—would ...
... I was very photogenic and that I resembled the Early Christians. I had cultivated a fine beard and let my hair grow long. The beard was meant to be in imitation of my old favourite iconoclast Bernard Shaw rather than of any Greek Father of the first Christian centuries. But, in the context of the new life I was leading, the comparison with the religious, who fled into the desert of the Thebaid ...
... Page 40 Truth; this Truth is to be found somewhere high up. ( laughter ) They had to haul him up. g) No doubt, I always had the ambition in my younger days to took like Bernard Shaw whom I admired a great deal. But when I was in Bombay I could not grow a beard -beards at that time were not in fashion for people who were rather young and perhaps inclined to be romantic, ( ...
... savour. If his extravagant comparison of himself with Shakespeare had to be taken in dull earnest without any smile in it, he would be either a witless ass or a giant of humourless arrogance,— and Bernard Shaw could be neither. As to his position in literature, I have given my opinion; but more precisely, I imagine he will take some place but not a very large place, once the drums have ceased beating... mind never understood Shaw and yet allowed itself to be captured by him, and its old established ideas, "moral" positions, impenetrable armour of commercialised Puritanism and self-righteous Victorian assurance to be ravaged and burned out of existence by Shaw and his allies. Anyone who knew Victorian England and sees the difference now cannot but be struck by it, and Shaw's part in it, at least... from the Ashram atmosphere. Page 164 February 3, 1932 I do not think Harris' attack on Shaw as you describe it can be taken very seriously any more than can Wells' jest about his pronunciation of English being the sole astonishing thing about him. Wells, Chesterton, Shaw and others joust at each other like the kabiwalas 1 of old Calcutta, though with more refined weapons, and ...
... Keats 65 : "A woman of beauty is a trouble for ever." Then now, after all these introductory preliminaries, I hope you don't mind, after all these prefaces which were somewhat long, a la Bernard Shaw, I start my story. You have given me a free hand, so if you don't like the hand or the face, you may leave. So we take up the thread now. I want to tell you something about Mrs. Gracy - her experience ...
... shop-boys except when they talk about high subjects, and then they talk Shaw. There was certain poetry in Joan's speech, action, etc. But here the whole thing is knocked out and instead you have vulgar modern prose. In order to write about that age you ought to know about the Roman Catholic Church, feudalism etc. Bernard Shaw has his own views about them and instead of giving a picture of those times... Aurobindo and that he would follow his own light. He also mentioned in this letter that he knew about Sri Aurobindo from Devadas and C. R. Das. 23-8-1925 "Joan of Arc" by George Bernard Shaw Sri Aurobindo : These men, Chesterton and G. B. S., try to be clever at any cost. It seems that G. B. S. wants to put in here the idea of evolution. ( After three days ) Sri Aurobindo... creates is that I must have been a very serious prig, all along very pious and serious. I was nothing of the kind." "He also states I must have been attracted by the Fabian – Society started by Bernard Shaw and others. I was not, and I had no leaning to the labour party which in fact was not yet born." Chapter III “His treatment of my life in England is more conjectural than real. He is ...
... Page 425 Now there is the topic of Shakespeare expressing the various parts of himself. You know that he has been honoured with the epithet "myriad-minded". The "Bardolaters", as Bernard Shaw dubbed those who blindly worship Shakespeare's genius and assign to him evey possible capacity of mind, extol him as not only the greatest dramatic poet, which he certainly is, but also as a profound ...
... for which they have never developed sensibilities. Page 141 That great savant and revolutionary but not reckoned as a poet or critic, that "the greatest brain on the planet" as Bernard Shaw seems to have said about Sri Aurobindo, is a challenge to their academic standing and prestige and therefore must be ridiculed for self-promotion. Such peddlers of excellence simply take pride ...
... morality is a convention—man cannot live without conventions, mental and moral, otherwise he feels himself lost in the rolling sea of the anarchic forces of vital Nature. Even the Russells and Bernard Shaws can only end by setting up another set of conventions in the place of those they have skittled over. Only by rising above mind can one really get beyond conventions—Krishna was able to do it because ...
... imagine me, when I first came here, to have started growing long hair and sprouting a far from wispy beard? And yet I did so. No doubt, I always had the ambition in my younger days to look like Bernard Shaw whom I admired a great deal. But when I was in Bombay I could not grow a beard — beards at that time were Page 45 not in fashion for people who were rather young and perhaps ...
... were very stimulating, he wondered why the educational situation has deteriorated particularly over the past 50 years. He referred to the great thinkers like Socrates, Plato, Diogenes, Rousseau, Bernard Shaw, Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo. He said that in spite of the great agreement among these thinkers, he wondered why their great ideas had not got implemented. He said that ...
... ", there was now a gentleness, which was the outcome of philosophical deveopments. The influence of a Jesuit teacher with a scientific bent of mind, and the exposure he received to the world of Bernard Shaw ("a laughing colossus") made him disdain "cheap religionism, as well as cheap materialism, puritanical sham no less than erotic tawdriness". Ernst Haeckel's Riddle of the Universe and the work of ...
... is the narration of a "little passage of arms between Bernard Shaw's cockiness and his own wife's quiet irony." "Once he was holding forth to a company of friends on the comparative merits of man's mind and woman's. At the end of a coruscating monologue Shaw said that male judgment was always superior to female judgment. 'Of course,' Mrs. Shaw coolly replied, 'after all you married me and I ...
... is an animal, it is good for him to be a conscious and an efficient animal, and he must try to be an efficient nothing else. In Bernard Shaw we find that insistence Sri Aurobindo : But Shaw does not say that there is nothing higher than the animal nature in man ! Shaw is an acute thinker. He refuses to be deceived into the belief of the greatness of man. He says that man must rise higher. But... mind which tears off the mask and refuses to accept current ideas, thoughts and opinions. It is a kind of solvent. Man must have the courage to see the Truth as it is without any deception about it. Shaw has got that critical mind to a great extent and we find the same in Anatole France. The second thing that a man must have in order to reach the Truth is the aspiration for a Truth higher than what ...
... But I don't know what to say to you! You stagger me so much! Sri Aurobindo: Well, but look at logic. G.B.S. [George Bernard Shaw, the great satirist] declares himself the equal, if Page 174 not superior, of Shakespeare. Now, you write better poetry than Shaw ever did (which is easy because he never wrote any). So you are the equal (if not the superior) of Shakespeare! NB: But ...
... for six years! Poor dear didn't know what to do, but he understood that everything had not come to an end. So he quietly spent those Page 86 six years reading the plays of Bernard Shaw, (laughter) That tided him over the prolonged crisis of nothing happening. Then again the Yogic movement started, and I am sure it's going on famously. In sadhana the place of the ...
... relation between length of poems and purity of poetic expression: the unescapable subjective element in all criticism of poetry: the quantitative metre in English: on translating poetry: the place of Bernard Shaw in English literature: the Overmind inspiration in poetry: the poetry of Shahid Suhrawardy, of Amal, of Dilip, of Armando, Menezes, of Auden, of Spender, of Hopkins, of Bharati Sarabhai, of Ha... Divine a full sporting chance. When he lights something in you or is preparing a light, don't come in with a wet blanket of despondency and throw it on the poor flame. 89 Welt, Chesterton, Shaw and others joust at each other like the kabiwalas of old Calcutta, though with more refined weapons, and you cannot take their humorous sparrings as considered appreciations; if you do, you turn exquisite ...
... taught anything of the kind. I got the blessed Nirvana without even wanting it. Aspiration is the first or usual means, that is all. April 13, 1937 You seem to be, by the way, like Bernard Shaw in matters of vaccination. Do you deny the profits of one of the greatest discoveries of medicine? Not for yogis, but for the public? Can't discuss that. Have not denied partial effectivity ...
... morality is a convention — man cannot live without conventions, mental and moral, otherwise he feels himself lost in the rolling sea of the anarchic forces of the vital Nature. Even the Russells and Bernard Shaws can only end by setting up another set of conventions in the place of those they have skittled over. Only by rising above mind can one really get beyond conventions — Krishna was able to do it because ...
... organisation, the machine, and not of the individual. The individual has no freedom. He does not grow. Organise by all means but there must be scope for freedom and plasticity, Disciple : Bernard Shaw justified the Abyssinian conquest of Italy by saying that there was danger to human life while passing through the Dankal desert. Page 206 Sri Aurobindo : In that case, let ...
... but thinkers and creators — except a certain class of them. Intellectual or intellectual thinker will then be one who is a thinker by his reason or mainly by his reason — e.g., Bertrand Russell, Bernard Shaw, Wells etc. Tagore thinks by vision, imagination, feeling and intuition, not by the reason — at least that is true of his writings. C. R. Das himself would not be an intellectual — in politics, ...
... morality is a convention—man cannot live without conventions, mental and moral, otherwise he feels himself lost in the rolling sea of the anarchic forces of the vital Nature. Even the Russells and Bernard Shaws can only end by setting up another set of conventions in the place of those they have skittled over. Only by rising above mind can one really get beyond conventions—Krishna was able to do it because ...
... flow of language and rhythm, but more can only be said after reading the whole. It looks as if the temptation of your new metre, once mastered, would be that you can go on for ever in it. As Bernard Shaw said of Moore's Brook Kerith and its perfect smooth style, "There is no reason why Moore should not go on for another 40,000 pages of this book." December 12,1936 (Regarding ...
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