What we learn for the sake of knowing, we hold; what we learn for the sake of accomplishing some ulterior end, we forget as soon a...s that end has been gained. This, too, is automatic action in the constitution of the mind itself, and it is fortunate and merciful that it is so, for otherwise our minds would be soon only rubbish-rooms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least th...ey do not have ulterior motives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use. When a thing has served an end to the uttermost, it is wholly new for an ulterior... service. In God, every end is converted into new means.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is des...tructive only out of hatred and selfishness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game. The man is not "taking" and the woman... is not "giving." No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife. No one is trying to prove anything or get anything out of anyone. The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn. And I have never had one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which you... absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.... Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue.... One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On the threshold of any wholly new and momentous devoted enterprise, the thousand ulterior intricacies and emperilings to which it... must conduct; these, at the outset, are mostly withheld from sight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What ails it, intrinsically, is a dearth of intellectual audacity and of aesthetic passion. Running through it, and characterizing... the work of almost every man and woman producing it, there is an unescapable suggestion of the old Puritan suspicion of the fine arts as such--of the doctrine that they offer fit asylum for good citizens only when some ulterior and superior purpose is carried into them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualit...ies of that soil of human nature into which they fall--the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »