In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as... is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over... dullness, jokes over homilies, good humor over jokes, good nature over bad, feeling over sentiment, truth over poetry, consciousness over explanations, tragedy over pathos, comedy over tragedy, entertainment over art, private over public, generosity over meanness, charity over murder, love over charity, irreplaceable over interchangeable, divergence over concurrence, principle over interest, people over principle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is in every either-or a certain naivete which may well befit the evaluator, but ill- becomes the thinker, for whom opposites... dissolve in series of transitions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The foremost logical prerequisite of a rigid classification is that a mental item belong to no more than one category. Such either.../or logic presupposes a digital mode of thinking, which, unlike its analog counterpart, does not tolerate any "gray" shadings among mental fields. "Digital thinking" has a staccato character somewhat evocative of the on/off nature of the conventional light switch or the convulsive progression of time on digital clocks, in marked contradistinction to the smooth, legato style of the dimmer or the traditional analog clock.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations--one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advic...e is this: do it or do not do it--you will regret both.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuou...s. I do not care to lie down, for I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their sou...ls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Doubt is thought's despair; despair is personality's doubt.... Doubt and despair ... belong to completely different spheres; diffe...rent sides of the soul are set in motion.... Despair is an expression of the total personality, doubt only of thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness ... they live, as it wer...e, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid mome...nt of enjoyment is accompanied by death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »