The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of... practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With two thousand years of Christianity behind him ... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the dee...p end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man with lantern: Who are you? Captain: The Flying Cloud. 220 days out of New York and 50 days trying to find your blasted ha...rbor. Man with lantern: Nobody asked you to come. Captain: Got anything in this hog-end of the world except fog? Man with lantern: Sure, we've got gold, fountains of gold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects th...e man. The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and a...lso the wisest and most upright man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"... But a coarse old man am I, I choose the second-best,... I forget it all awhile Upon a woman's breast." Day-break and a candle end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"... I have what no young man can have Because he loves too much.... Words I have that can pierce the heart, But what can he do but touch?" Day-break and a candle end. LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Not to die on the straw at home, Those hands to close these eyes,... That is all I ask, my dear, From the old man in the skies." Day-break and a candle end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What Marxism was to the society of Economic Man, Calvinism was to that of Intellectual Man: the final, messianic exaggeration of i...ts creed. In both, the belief in the attainment of freedom and equality could only be maintained by sacrificing actual freedom. The doctrine of determination through predestination in Calvinism is parallel to that of determination through the class situation in Marxism. Both abolished actual freedom in existing society to maintain the belief in the reality and imminence of freedom in the coming society. And both collapsed as orders when it was proved that the only society which they could realize was an unfree society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »