Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard
there was another subject of understanding which, all were agreed, was paramount; and that was yourself. Here again was a peculiar human task: irrelevant to the angels because they knew themselves already and to the beasts because it was utterly beyond them. Far from being a sign of modesty, innocence, or intuitive virtue, not to know yourself was to resemble the beasts, if not in coarseness at least in deficiency of education. To know yourself was not egoism but the gateway to all virtue. — Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard
It not in our power not to be stirred mentally by our appetites but it is in our power to translate them or not to translate them into actions. — Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard