I shall speak of ... how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another.... Of the revulsion that foll...ows one insight and precedes the next.... Of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us then examine this point, and say, "God is, or he is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing her...e. There is an infinite chaos which separates us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
War is not a true adventure. It is a mere ersatz. Where ties are established, where problems are set, where creation is stimulated...--there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins. Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went throu...gh fire and through water; but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You may cut off the heads of every rich man now living--of every statesman--every literary, and every scientific authority, withou...t in the least changing the social situation. Artists, of course, disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church. Corporations are not elevators, but levellers, as I see them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »