Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
William S. BurroughsStichwörter: disadvantage internal parasites
But to unite in a permanent religious institution which is not to be subject to doubt before the public even in the lifetime of one man, and thereby to make a period of time fruitless in the progress of mankind toward improvement, thus working to the disadvantage of posterity - that is absolutely forbidden. For himself (and only for a short time) a man may postpone enlightenment in what he ought to know, but to renounce it for posterity is to injure and trample on the rights of mankind.
Immanuel KantStichwörter: doubt progress enlightenment rights disadvantage posterity improvement forbidden fruitless injure religious-institution
Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time.
Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation.
Stichwörter: expectations disadvantage advantage shrinkage
I think this is one bad side of a mirror; it helps us to see the reflection of the effects of our own actions on ourselves. We smile and it smiles back to us, we frown and it frowns to us. How I wish it shows us the reflections of the effects of our actions on other people as well so that we will be conscious!
Israelmore AyivorStichwörter: reflect friends people selfish self smile smiling reflection happy sad bad actions self-image food-for-thought glass cry image myself me habit other-people disadvantage joyful mirror behaviour cause-and-effect angry who-you-are i frown human-behaviour see-yourself israelmore-ayivor do-good-do-it-to-yourself look-to-yourself plane-mirror self-gain your-image your-self-image
A real problem only occurs when there are admittedly disadvantages in all courses that can be pursued. If it is discovered just before a fashionable wedding that the Bishop is locked up in the coal-cellar, that is not a problem. It is obvious to anyone but an extreme anti-clerical or practical joker that the Bishop must be let out of the coal-cellar. But suppose the Bishop has been locked up in the wine-cellar, and from the obscure noises, sounds as of song and dance, etc., it is guessed that he has indiscreetly tested the vintages round him; then indeed we may properly say that there has arisen a problem; for upon the one hand, it is awkward to keep the wedding waiting, while, upon the other, any hasty opening of the door might mean an episcopal rush and scenes of the most unforeseen description.
G.K. ChestertonStichwörter: problems disadvantage
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