All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet, a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks of Manners... and Decency, which would be too often broken in upon, if it were not for that defence, which keeps the enemy at a proper distance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had been living in Berlin since 1922, thus synchronously with the young man of the book; but neither this fact, nor my sharing s...ome of his interests, such as literature and lepidoptera, should make one say "aha" and identify the designer with the design.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The last man of the world-city no longer wants to live--he may cling to life as an individual, but as a type, as an aggregate, no,... for it is a characteristic of this collective existence that it eliminates the terror of death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men found that his absorbing egotism was deadly to all other men. It resembled the torpedo, which inflicts a succession of shocks ...on any one who takes hold of it, producing spasms which contract the muscles of the hand, so that the man can not open his fingers; and the animal inflicts new and more violent shocks, until he paralyzes and kills his victim. So, this exorbitant egotist narrowed, impoverished, and absorbed the power and existence of those who served him; and the universal cry of France, and of Europe, in 1814, was, "enough of him;" "assez de Bonaparte."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You see, male man was made with five strong senses to gather the truth of things and his mind is a threshing floor to clean his tr...uth in. This is often an unhappy thing, for man sees himself as he really is. Thus he is made very miserable. But he does not destroy himself because the female man was made with squint eyes so that she sees only those things which please her. And her threshing floor is cramped and cluttered. She cannot separate the wheat from the chaff. But she achieves a harvest that makes her happy. When she sees man fleeing from her own dish and he is blindly and divinely happy. Ah, yes, the female companion of man has the gift of the soothing-balm of lies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,-...-because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for th...ey know not what they should do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These, his images and happenings of the mind, scrambled from his lips and entertained the listeners for a day, then went to join t...he thousands of other dreams where they dwelt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must be generously willing to leave for a time the narrow boundaries in which our individual lives are passed ... In this fresh..., breezy atmosphere ... we will be surprised to find that many of our familiar old conventional truths look very queer indeed in some of the sudden side lights thrown upon them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of all existing forms of injustice there is none so cruel and inconsistent as is the position in which women are placed with regar...d to self-maintenance--the calm ignoring of their rights and responsibilities which has gone on for centuries. If the economic conditions are hard for men to meet, subjected as they are to the constant weeding out of the less expert and steady hands, it is evident that women, thrown upon their own resources, have a frightful struggle to endure, especially as they have always to contend against a public sentiment which discountenances their seeking industrial employment as a means of livelihood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »