Saturday, January 21, 2017

Selfishness

Shall then this human heart live for itself; gather and store for its own delectation, for its own good?  There is no such thing as one’s own good.  Goodness is mutual, is communal, is only gained by giving and receiving.

            - Haultain[1]



[1] This could be either Frederick W. Haultain (1821-1882), a member of Canadian Parliament in the 1860s, or his son Frederick W. A. G. Haultain (1857-1942), the first premier of the Northwest Territories.

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