The desert Arab found no joy like the...... "T. E. Lawrence"の名言

The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.
— T. E. Lawrence

タグ: joy, self, mind, soul

"T. E. Lawrence"の他の名言

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
— T. E. Lawrence

タグ: dignity, will, honor, people

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
— T. E. Lawrence

タグ: tied, tin, tail, news, value

Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.
— T. E. Lawrence

タグ: true, parents, believe, children

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
— T. E. Lawrence

タグ: indeed, thought, desert, words

When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
— T. E. Lawrence

タグ: i-am, angry, god, myself