Social and scientific progress are assured, sir, once our great system of postpossession payments is in operation, not the install...ment plan, no sir, but a system of small postpossession payments that clinch the investment. No possible rational human wish unfulfilled. A man with a salary of fifty dollars a week can start payments on a Rolls-Royce, the Waldorf-Astoria, or a troupe of trained seals if he so desires.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Frances Stevens: Mother, this is why I've had to spend half my life running around the world after you--to keep men like this away... from you. Mrs. Stevens: Well after this, let me run my own interference. It looks like the blockers are having all the fun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years befo...re you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[My daughter] says she wants to marry a rich man, so she can have a Porsche. My rejoinder always is: Go out and get rich yourself,... so you can buy your own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely abstract thinking, it bec...omes for us the most real thing in the actual world, although for us it is the elusive goal of an infinite quest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and myst...erious object of the biographer's interest, of the historian's comments, of popular legend, and of patriotic devotion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A self is, by its very essence, a being with a past. One must look lengthwise backwards in the stream of time in order to see the ...self, or its shadow, now moving with the stream, now eddying in the currents from bank to bank of its channel, and now strenuously straining onwards in the pursuit of its chosen good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only the more uncompromising of the mystics still seek for knowledge in a silent land of absolute intuition, where the intellect f...inally lays down its conceptual tools, and rests from its pragmatic labors, while its works do not follow it, but are simply forgotten, and are as if they never had been.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual th...eory, but to interpreting the meaning of the civilizations which they have represented, and to attempting the interpretation of whatever minds in the universe, human or divine, they believed to be real.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »