Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It's an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theor...y can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whale on the beach, you dinosaur, what brought you smoothing into this dead harbor?... If you'd stayed inside you could have grown as big as the Empire State.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we ever feel discouraged by the apparent constraints on humanity, about its lack of elbowroom and freedom of action, we should ...think of the Jews and the Greeks, insignificant, powerless, and tiny in the age of the dinosaur empires, yet providing the growing points for the next stage in human destiny.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his je...alousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One question that people always ask at home is never asked here: "What happened to Communism in Russia?" Everybody yawns when a vi...sitor brings it up, because the answer is so obvious to every Russian. The answer is that there never was Communism in Russia; there were only communists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »