"The face of the enemy frightens me..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me
More by Oscar Wilde
“I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.”
“Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.”
“Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.”
More on Self Reflection
“Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.”
“We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are thevictims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.”
“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.”