Reviews for Turkish Literature

The average rating for Turkish Literature based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-05-27 00:00:00 Richie Rubin A quick read, and a thought-provoking sermon. Perfectly pairs with a reading of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, due to the message it bear... how you are living your life truly matters. "It is not enough in life to not do wrong. You must do actual intended good."

Review # 2 was written on 2013-11-23 00:00:00 Christopher Schuhmacher "To ask to see some fruit of our endeavour is but a transcendental way of serving for reward; and what we take to be contempt of self is only greed of hire." "We are not damned for doing wrong, but for not doing right; Christ would never hear of negative morality; thou shalt was ever his word, with which he superseded thou shalt not." "If a thing is wrong for us, we should not dwell upon the thought of it; or we shall soon dwell upon it with inverted pleasure. If we cannot drive it from our minds--one thing of two: either our creed is in the wrong and we must more indulgently remodel it; or else, if our morality be in the right, we are criminal lunatics and should place our persons in restraint." "A man may have a flaw, a weakness, that unfits him for the duties of life, that spoils his temper, that threatens his integrity, or that betrays him into cruelty. It has to be conquered; but it must never be suffered to engross his thoughts." "To be honest, to be kind--to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation--above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself--here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy." "A man dissatisfied with his endeavours is a man tempted to sadness." "Noble disappointment, noble self-denial are not to be admired, not even to be pardoned, if they bring bitterness. It is one thing to enter the kingdom of heaven maim; another to maim yourself and stay without. And the kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure." "If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people." "A strange temptation attends upon man: to keep his eye on pleasures, even when he will not share in them; to aim all his morals against them." "Virtue will not help us, and it is not meant to help us. It is not even its own reward, except for the self-centred and--I had almost said--the unamiable. No man can pacify his conscience; if quiet be what he want, he shall do better to let that organ perish from disuse. And to avoid the penalties of the law, and the minor capitis diminutio of social ostracism, is an affair of wisdom--of cunning, if you will--and not of virtue." "Ill-temper and envy and revenge find here an arsenal of pious disguises; this is the playground of inverted lusts." "Life is not designed to minister to a man's vanity."