28 quotes found
“The mass-man would never have accepted authority external to himself had not his surroundings violently forced him to do so. As to-day, his surroundings do not so force him, the everlasting mass-ma...”
“falling in love is a state of mental misery which has a restricting, impoverishing, and paralyzing effect upon the development of our consciousness.”
“To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. The gesture characteristic of his tribe consists in looking at the world with ...”
“I am I and my circumstance; and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself.”
“Why write, if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bull-fighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile, and two-horned topics?”
“We see, then, that even from the zoological point of view, which is the least interesting andnote thisnot decisive, a being in such condition can never achieve a genuine equilibrium; we also see so...”
“Let us tear down the romantic trappings that have adorned passion. Let us cease believing that the measure of a mans love lies in how stupid he has become or is willing to be.”
“Marxian Socialism and Bolshevism are two historical phenomena which have hardly a single common denominator.”
