Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge.
T.E. Lawrence
Morality, Immortality, Judgment, Human Limitations, Philosophical Musing
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Immortality | Visionaries | Self-deception | Morality | Waste | National Character | Nature Imagery | Contempt | Humor | Resistance | Aviation | Cosmic Scale | Nationalism | Ideology | Ineffability | Suffering | National Pride | Political Advice | Spirituality | Politics | More
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“He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.” T.E. Lawrence
Maturity, Nostalgia, Art, Youth, Life’s Purpose
T.E. Lawrence Maturity, Nostalgia, Art, Youth, Life’s Purpose“My will had gone and I feared to be alone, lest the winds of circumstance, or power, or lust, blow my empty soul away.” T.E. Lawrence
Willpower, Solitude, Fear, Emptiness, Vulnerability
T.E. Lawrence Willpower, Solitude, Fear, Emptiness, Vulnerability“A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.” T.E. Lawrence
Identity, Colonialism, Self-determination, Cultural Assimilation, Resistance
T.E. Lawrence Identity, Colonialism, Self-determination, Cultural Assimilation, Resistance“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
Emotional Extremes, Existential Thoughts, Contentment, Anger, Cosmic Perspective
T.E. Lawrence Emotional Extremes, Existential Thoughts, Contentment, Anger, Cosmic Perspective“It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also then you will not go mad yourself.” T.E. Lawrence
Patience, Self-control, Advantage, Frustration, Sanity
T.E. Lawrence Patience, Self-control, Advantage, Frustration, Sanity“Half a calamity is better than a whole one.” T.E. Lawrence
Optimism, Perspective, Misfortune, Wisdom, Proverb
T.E. Lawrence Optimism, Perspective, Misfortune, Wisdom, Proverb“Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true.” T.E. Lawrence
Dreams, Action, Inspiration, Determination, Life Advice
T.E. Lawrence Dreams, Action, Inspiration, Determination, Life Advice“It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.” T.E. Lawrence
Aviation, Generational Challenge, Progress, Ambition, Technological Advancement
T.E. Lawrence Aviation, Generational Challenge, Progress, Ambition, Technological Advancement“I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of intense loneliness in life, and a contempt, not for other men, but for all they do.” T.E. Lawrence
Identity Crisis, Loneliness, Contempt, Cultural Reference, Existential Thoughts
T.E. Lawrence Identity Crisis, Loneliness, Contempt, Cultural Reference, Existential Thoughts“A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocation, to excess conferred by its honeyed untiring smoothness.” T.E. Lawrence
Technology, Freedom, Excess, Sensory Experience, Modernity
T.E. Lawrence Technology, Freedom, Excess, Sensory Experience, Modernity“The dreamers of the day are dangerous. for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.” T.E. Lawrence
Dreams, Action, Danger, Possibility, Visionaries
T.E. Lawrence Dreams, Action, Danger, Possibility, Visionaries“Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.” T.E. Lawrence
Military Tactics, Intuition, Leadership, Unpredictability, Wisdom
T.E. Lawrence Military Tactics, Intuition, Leadership, Unpredictability, Wisdom“They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks' food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet appeared better in himself.” T.E. Lawrence
Leadership, Equality, Respect, Appearance, Cultural Understanding
T.E. Lawrence Leadership, Equality, Respect, Appearance, Cultural Understanding“Do not try and do too much with your own hands.” T.E. Lawrence
Delegation, Empowerment, Cultural Respect, War Strategy, Advisory Role
T.E. Lawrence Delegation, Empowerment, Cultural Respect, War Strategy, Advisory Role“We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew.” T.E. Lawrence
War Experience, Victory, Disillusionment, Generational Conflict, Cyclical History
T.E. Lawrence War Experience, Victory, Disillusionment, Generational Conflict, Cyclical History“Do not try to do too much with your own hands.” T.E. Lawrence
Delegation, Cultural Respect, War Strategy, Humility, Cultural Differences
T.E. Lawrence Delegation, Cultural Respect, War Strategy, Humility, Cultural Differences“We pay for these things too much in honour and in innocent lives.” T.E. Lawrence
Cost Of War, Honor, Innocence, Sacrifice, Moral Burden
T.E. Lawrence Cost Of War, Honor, Innocence, Sacrifice, Moral Burden“The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.” T.E. Lawrence
Spirituality, Bedouin Culture, Divine Presence, Religious Perspective, Cultural Insight
T.E. Lawrence Spirituality, Bedouin Culture, Divine Presence, Religious Perspective, Cultural Insight