UGS303 MIDTERM QUOTES

Wilson

Wilson

"If I did not believe that to be progressive was to preserve the essentials of our institutions, I for one could not be a progressive."

Marx

"Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life."

Dostoevsky

"We shall show them that they are weak, that they are only pitiful children, but that childlike happiness is the sweetest of all. They will become timid and will look to us and huddle close to us in fear, as chicks to the hen. They will marvel at us and will be awe-stricken before us, and will be proud at our being so powerful and clever that we have been able to subdue such a turbulent flock of thousands of millions."

Doyle

"But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was introduced a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results"

Nietzsche

"Everything that philosophers say about man is no longer fundamental, but tells us something about the men of a very limited period of time."

Nietzsche

"Everything, however, became what it is. There are no eternal facts. There are no absolute truths."

Nietzsche

"But everything so far that has made metaphysical assumptions valuable, frightful, delightful, is passion, error, and self-deception—the worst methods of attaining knowledge, not the very best, have taught us to believe in them."

Shaw

"Decadence can find agents only when it wears the mask of progress."

Shaw

"The imagination cannot conceive a viler criminal than he who should build another London like the present one, nor a greater benefactor than he who should destroy it."

Marx

"These laborers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce...."

Eliot

"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."

Eliot

"There is not even silence in the mountains But dry sterile thunder without rain"

Eliot

"April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain."

Coolidge

"Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments."

Kipling

"And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins...."

Pirandello

"... he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life."

Fitzgerald

"Progress was a labyrinth ... people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it..."

Remarque

"And even if these scenes of our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender, secret influence that passed from them into us could not rise again."

Freud

"We have found that the dream represents a wish as fulfilled."

Mussolini

"Fascism believes now and always in sanctity and heroism, that is to say in acts in which no economic motive -- remote or immediate -- is at work."

Roosevelt

"Our task now is not discovery or exploitation of natural resources, or necessarily producing more goods. It is the soberer, less dramatic business of administering resources and plants already in hand,... of distributing wealth and products more equitably, of adapting existing economic organizations to the service of the people. The day of enlightened administration has come."

Dostoevsky

"Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering."

Dostoevsky

"Oh, we shall allow them even sin, they are weak and helpless, and they will love us like children because we allow them to sin"

Dostoevsky

"They are little children rioting and barring out the teacher at school"

Dostoevsky

"...that's their ideal, but there's no sort of mystery of loft melancholy about it... It's simple lust of power, of filthy earthly gain, of domination - something like a universal serfdom with them as masters - thats all they

Dostoevsky

"There will be thousands of millions of happy babes, and hundred thousand sufferers who have taken upon themselves the curse of the knowledge of good and evil."

Dostoevsky

"Feed men, and then ask them virtue!" that's what they'll write on the banner..."

Dostoevsky

"That deception will be our suffering, for we shall be forced to lie."

Dostoevsky

"Man was created a rebel; and how can rebels be happy?"

Dostoevsky

"And all will be happy, all the millions of creatures except the hundred thousand who rule over them. For only we, we who guard the mystery, shall be unhappy."

Dostoevsky

""...to-day, people are more persuaded than ever that they have perfect freedom, yet they have brought their freedom to us and laid it humbly at our feet. But that has been our doing."

Dostoevsky

"They want to be told what to do."

Dostoevsky

"Turn them into bread, and mankind will run after Thee like a flock of sheep, grateful and obedient."

Dostoevsky

"For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for."

Dostoevsky

"For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance."

Dostoevsky

""For having begun to build their tower of Babel without us, they will end, of course, with cannibalism."

Dostoevsky

"People are slaves; you think too highly of them."

Dostoevsky

"They will marvel at us and look on us as gods, because we are ready to endure the freedom which they have found so dreadful and to rule over them- so awful it will seem to them to be free."

Dostoevsky

"Oh, we shall persuade them that they will only become free when they renounce their freedom to us and submit to us."

Dostoevsky

"So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship."

Dostoevsky

"...the ages will pass, and humanity will proclaim by the lips of their sages that there is no crime, and therefore no sin; there is only hunger?"

Dostoevsky

"Who are these keepers of the mystery who have taken some curse upon themselves for the happiness of mankind?"

Doyle

"All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen...."

Nietzsche

"The human intellect projected its errors as appearances and its basic assumptions into things"

Nietzsche

"What do you believe? - This: that the weights of all things must be determined afresh."

Nietzsche

"God is dead! God remains dead! And we killed him!"

Nietzsche

""Because we looked at the world for thousands of years with moral, aesthetic, religious demands, with blind inclination, passion, or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so wondrously multicolored, terrible, meaningful, soulful, that it has taken on color—but we have been the colorists."

Nietzsche

""Where is God?" he cried. "I will tell you! We killed him—you and I! We all are his murderers!""

Nietzsche

"What we call now the world is the result of a number of errors and fantasies."

Nietzsche

"How can something develop from its opposite—for example, reason from the unreasonable, feeling from the dead, logic from the illogical, disinterested gaze from covetous wanting, altruism from egoism, truth from error?"

Nietzsche

"there is nothing more terrible than infinity."

Nietzsche

"What if this chemistry would reveal that in these areas too the most glorious colors arise from low, despised materials?"

Shaw

"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."

Shaw

"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."

Shaw

"Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good."

Shaw

"Activity is the only road to knowledge."

Shaw

"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."

Shaw

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

Shaw

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."

Shaw

"Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material."

Shaw

""Do not love your neighbor as yourself. If you are on good terms with yourself it is an impertinence: if on bad, an injury."

Shaw

"Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."

Tzara

"Dada is here, there and a little everywhere, such as it is, with its faults, with its personal differences and distinctions which it accepts and views with indifference."

Tzara

"I destroy the drawers of the brain and of social organization: spread demoralization wherever i go and cast my hand from heaven to hell, my eyes from hell to heaven, restore the fecund wheel of a universal circus to objective forces and the imagination of every individual."

Tzara

"Everything one looks at is false"

Tzara

"We have had enough of the intelligent movements that have stretched beyond measure our credulity in the benefits of science, What we want now is spontaneity. Not because it is better or more beautiful than anything else, But because everything that issues freely from ourselves, without intervention of speculative ideas, represents us."

Kandinsky

"Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age (this is the element of style)- dictated by the period and particular country to which the artist belongs (it is doubtful how long the latter distinction will continue to exist)."

Kandinsky

"That which has no material existence cannot be subjected to a material classification, That which belongs to the spirit of the future can only be realized in feeling, and to this feeling the talent of the artist is the only road, Theory is the lamp which sheds light on the petrified ideas of yesterday and of the more distant past."

Kandinsky

"This evolution, this movement forward and upward, is only possible if the path in the material world is clear, that is, if no barriers stand in the way. This is the external condition. Then the Abstract Spirit moves the Human Spirit forward and upward on this clear path which must naturally ring out and be able to be heard within the individual; a summoning must be possible."

Kandinsky

"There is no "must" in art, because art is free."

Kandinsky

"Every artist, as a creator, has something in him which calls for expression (this element of personality)."

Kandinsky

"Our minds, which are even now only just awakening after years of materialism, are infected with the despair of unbelief, of lack of purpose and ideal, The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip."

Marinetti

"Literature has up to now magnified pensive immobility, ecstasy and slumber. We want to exalt movements of aggression, feverish sleeplessness, the double march, the perilous leap, the slap and the blow with the fist."

Marinetti

"Let the good incendiaries with charred fingers come! Here they are! Heap up the fire to the shelves of the libraries! Divert the canals to flood the cellars of the museums! Let the glorious canvases swim ashore! Take the picks and hammers! Undermine the foundation of venerable towns!"

Marinetti

"Let us leave good sense behind the hideous husk and let us hurl ourselves, like fruit spiced with pride, into the immense mouth and breast of the world! Let us feed the unknown, not from despair, but simply to enrich the unfathomable reservoirs of the Absurd!"

Unamuno

"Our philosophy - that is, our mode of understanding or not understanding the world and life - springs from our feeling towards life itself."

Unamuno

"Was man made for science or was science made for man?"

Unamuno

"The values we are discussing are, as you see, values of the heart, and against values of the heart reasons do not avail. For reasons are only reasons - that is to say, they are not even truths."

Unamuno

"Hegel made famous his aphorism that all the ration is real and all the real rational; but there are many of us who, unconvinced by Hegel, continue to believe that the real, the really real, is irrational, that reason builds upon irrationalities."

Unamuno

"So far as I am concerned, I will never willingly yield myself, nor entrust my confidence, to any popular leader who is not penetrated with the feeling that he who orders a people orders men, men of flesh and bone, men who are born, suffer, and, although they do not wish to die, die; men who are ends in themselves, not merely means; men who must be themselves and not others; men, in fine, who seek that which we call happiness."

Unamuno

"I am a man; no other man do I deem a stranger."

Wilson

"Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not mechanics; it must develop."

Wilson

"But we are coming now to realize that life is so complicated that we are not dealing with the old conditions, and that the law has to step in and create new conditions under which we may live, the conditions which make it tolerable for us to live."

Wilson

"It is perfectly clear to every man who has any vision of the immediate future, who can forecast any part of it from the indications of the present, that we are just upon the threshold of a time when the systematic life of this country will be sustained, or at least supplemented, at every point by governmental activity."

Wilson

"We are in the presence of a new organization of society, our life has broken away from the past."

Wilson

""Human freedom consists in perfect adjustments of human interests and human activities and human energies."

Wilson

"What it liberty? You say of the locomotive that it runs free. What do you mean? You mean that its parts are so assembled and adjusted that friction is reduced to a minimum, and that it has perfect adjustment."

Wilson

"I have long had an image in my mind of what constitutes liberty. Suppose that I were building a great piece of powerful machinery, and suppose that I should so awkwardly and unskilfully assemble the parts of it that every time one part tried to move it would be interfered with by the others, and the whole thing would buckle up and be checked. Liberty for the several parts would consist in the best possible assembling and adjustment of them all, would it not? If you want the great piston of the engine to run with absolute freedom, give it absolutely perfect alignment and adjustment with the other parts of the machine, so that it is free, not because it is let alone or isolated, but because it has been associated most skilfully and carefully with the other parts of the great structure."

Wilson

"We think of the future, not the past, as the more glorious time in comparison with which the present is nothing. Progress, development,—those are modern words. The modern idea is to leave the past and press onward to something new."

Wilson

"The old political formulas do not fit the present problems; they read now like documents taken out of a forgotten age. The older cries sound as if they belonged to a past age which men have almost forgotten."

Wilson

"All that progressives ask or desire is permission—in an era when "development," "evolution," is the scientific word—to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine."

Wilson

"We have changed our economic conditions, absolutely, from top to bottom; and, with our economic society, the organization of our life."

Wilson

"We have come upon a very different age from any that preceded us."

Wilson

"No living thing can have its organs offset against each other, as checks, and live. On the contrary, its life is dependent upon their quick co-operation, their ready response to the commands of instinct or intelligence, their amicable community of purpose. Government is not a body of blind forces; it is a body of men, with highly differentiated functions, no doubt, in our modern day, of specialization, with a common task and purpose. Their co-operation is indispensable, their warfare fatal. There can be no successful government without the intimate, instinctive co-ordination of the organs of life and action."

Hume

"In every system of morality I have met with I have noticed that the author ... suddenly surprises me by moving from propositions with the usual copula 'is' (or 'is not') to ones that are connected by 'ought' (or 'ought not')

Hume

"For as this 'ought' (or 'ought not') expresses some new relation or affirmation, it needs to be pointed out and explained..."

Hume

""An action or sentiment, or character is virtuous or vicious; why? Because its view causes a pleasure or uneasiness of a particular kind."

Hume

". . .'tis the object of feeling, not of reason. It lies in yourself, not in the object."

Hume

"Reason is, and ought to be, the slave of the passions."

Hume

"Morals have an influence on actions and affections. Reason alone can have no such influence. So, morality is not a conclusion of reason."