Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any inf...ormer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In this Journal, my pen is a delicate needle point, tracing out a graph of temperament so as to show its daily fluctuations: grave... and gay, up and down, lamentation and revelry, self-love and self-disgust. You get here all my thoughts and opinions, always irresponsible and often contradictory or mutually exclusive, all my moods and vapours, all the varying reactions to environment of this jelly which is I.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is the pleasurable orgasm, like a rising sales graph, and there is the unpleasurable orgasm, slumping ominously like the Dow... Jones in 1929.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is true that this man was nothing but an elemental force in motion, directed and rendered more effective by extreme cunning and... by a relentless tactical clairvoyance .... Hitler was history in its purest form.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alive today he would undoubtedly have written and directed motion pictures, plays and God knows what. Instead of saying "This medi...um is not good," he would have used it and made it good. If some people called some of his work cheap (which some of it is), he wouldn't have cared a rap, because he would know that without some vulgarity there is no complete man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science is a dynamic undertaking directed to lowering the degree of the empiricism involved in solving problems; or, if you prefer..., science is a process of fabricating a web of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiments and observations and fruitful of further experiments and observations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, i...t could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the im...aginative leap from facts to generalisation, no theoretic discovery in science is made. The poet, on the other hand, must not imagine but reason--that is to say, he must exercise a great deal of consciously directed thought in the selection and rejection of his data: there is a technical logic, a poetic reasoning in his choice of the words, rhythms and images by which a poem's coherence is achieved.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greate...st number.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »