To de-animalize human mentality, to purge it of obsolete evolutionary characteristics, in particular of death,... which foreknowledge terrorizes the contents of skulls with, is the fundamental project of technology;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past--a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One idea is enough to organize a life and project it Into unusual but viable forms, but many ideas merely... Lead one thither into a morass of their own good intentions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although I mean it, and project the meaning As hard as I can into its brushed-metal surface,... It cannot, in this deteriorating climate, pick up Where I leave off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though it seems improbable on the face of it You must master the huge retards and have faith in the slow... Blossoming of haystacks, stairways, walls of convolvulus, Until the moon can do no more. Exhausted, You get out of bed. Your project is completed Though the experiment is a mess.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wish to come to know you get to know you all Let your belief in me and me in you stand tall... Just like a project of which no one tells Or do ya still think that I'm somebody else?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dandyism is especially likely to appear in those transitional ages in which democracy is not yet all-powerful and the aristocracy ...is only partially faltering and debased. In the confusion of such times certain men, déclassé, disgusted, idle, but all endowed with native strength, may conceive the project of founding a new kind of aristocracy, which will be all the more difficult to destroy as it will be based on the most precious and indestructible faculties, and on the God-given gifts which work and wealth cannot bestow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of d...estruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On such a night, when Air has loosed Its guardian grasp on blood and brain,... Old terrors then of god or ghost Creep from their caves to life again;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colon...ialised.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »