Citas de Robert Wilson Lynd

• No hay nada en lo que las aves se diferencien más del hombre que en la forma en que pueden construir y, sin embargo, dejar un paisaje como estaba antes.

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  Life, Dog, Men

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• Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.

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  Too Much, Likeable, Humans

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• Para ver pájaros es necesario formar parte del silencio.

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  Inspiración, Motivación, Naturaleza

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• La creencia en la posibilidad de una guerra corta y decisiva parece ser una de las ilusiones humanas más antiguas y peligrosas.

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  Paz, Militar, Guerra

  "Searchlights and Nightingales". Book by Robert Wilson Lynd, 1939.

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• It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

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  Sports, Silly, Playing Games

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• We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.

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  Effort, Strive, Impart

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• A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.

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  Cat, Animal, Divine

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• We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.

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  Age, Forget, Stills

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• A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.

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  Boys, Love Is, Poet

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• Hay dos tipos de curiosidad: la momentánea y la permanente. La momentánea se interesa por la apariencia extraña en la superficie de las cosas. La permanente se siente atraída por la vida asombrosa y consecutiva que fluye bajo la superficie de las cosas.

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  Inspirational, Life, Two

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• Si yo fuera filósofo, escribiría una filosofía de los juguetes, demostrando que no hay nada más en la vida que deba tomarse en serio, y que el día de Navidad en compañía de los niños es una de las pocas ocasiones en las que los hombres se vuelven completamente vivos.

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  Christmas, Xmas, Children

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• The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same in every field of knowledge. Knowledge is power only if a man knows what facts not to bother about.

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  Arte, Escritura, Hombres

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• No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.

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  Men, Hats, Streets

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• The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.

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  Inquisitive, Has Beens

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• Es casi imposible recordar lo trágico que es el mundo cuando uno está jugando al golf.

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  Sports, Golf, World

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• Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news.

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  Men, People, Police

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• Mr. Shaw came for a short time recently to be regarded less as an author than as an incident in the European War. In the opinion of many people it seemed as if the Allies were fighting against a combination composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Mr. Shaw.

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  War, Fighting, Turkeys

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• Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.

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  Lying, Sea, Ships

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• It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.

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  Praise, Expenses, Customs

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• When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.

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  Mean, People, Good Man

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• Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.

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  Keys, Light, Moments

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• On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all a virtue-finder, a singer of praise. He is not concerned with getting rid of dross except in so far as it hides the gold. In other words, the destructive side of criticism is purely a subsidiary affair. None of the best critics have been men of destructive minds. They are like gardeners whose business is more with the flowers than with the weeds.

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  Hierba, Flor, Hombres

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• The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels half ignorant until he has confirmed each bright particular with his eyes.

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  Book, Ignorance, Eye

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• The mirror that Strindberg held up to Nature was a cracked one. It was cracked in a double sense -- it was crazy. It gave back broken images of a world which it made look like the chaos of a lunatic dream.

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  Dream, Crazy, Mirrors

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• Sin embargo, cuando uno ha elogiado a Turguéniev por la belleza de su carácter y la hermosa verdad de su arte, recuerda que él también era humano y, por lo tanto, menos que perfecto. Su principal defecto fue, tal vez, que de todos los grandes artistas, era el más falto de exuberancia. Por eso empezó a ser despreciado en un mundo que valoraba más la exuberancia que la belleza, el amor o la piedad.

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  Beautiful, Art, Character

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