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Aug. 12th, 2020 01:36 pmTwo quotes I want to save from Boswell's London Journal:
"Thursday 21 July (1963). I remember nothing that happened worth relating this day. How many such days does mortal man pass!"
From Friday 22 July quoting Samuel Johnson "Truth is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull."
Reading Boswell's journal is a lesson in how little things change.
"Thursday 21 July (1963). I remember nothing that happened worth relating this day. How many such days does mortal man pass!"
From Friday 22 July quoting Samuel Johnson "Truth is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull."
Reading Boswell's journal is a lesson in how little things change.
"And the Infanta frowned, and her dainty rose-leaf lips curled in pretty disdain. 'For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts,' she cried, and she ran out into the garden." -- Oscar Wilde "The Birthday of the Infanta" in "House of Pomegranates"
I take some of what I've read in Chesterton with a large helping of salt, but this bit I like.
"Let us ask ourselves first what we really do want, not what recent legal decisions have told us to want, or recent logical philosophies proved that we must want, or recent social prophecies predicted that we shall some day want." - G. K. Chesterton
"Let us ask ourselves first what we really do want, not what recent legal decisions have told us to want, or recent logical philosophies proved that we must want, or recent social prophecies predicted that we shall some day want." - G. K. Chesterton
I'm still reading the biography of Fourier. I'm trying to hold my tongue until I've finished.
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"To the discerning eye, wrote Fourier, it was evident that the elephant embodied the four affective passions in their virtuous forms. The elephant was a devoted, but not servile, friend, a discreet and constant lover, a creature of large aims and ambitions, and a doting parent who was too responsible to bear children in captivity."
But for now a quote for
bravecows:"To the discerning eye, wrote Fourier, it was evident that the elephant embodied the four affective passions in their virtuous forms. The elephant was a devoted, but not servile, friend, a discreet and constant lover, a creature of large aims and ambitions, and a doting parent who was too responsible to bear children in captivity."
I am reading "Last and First Men" by Olaf Stapledon. I just have to share this bit of Stapledon's future history first published in 1931:
"Thus it was that America sank further and further into Americanism. Vast wealth and industry, and also brilliant invention, were concentrated upon puerile ends. In particular the whole of American life was organized around the cult of the powerful individual, that phantom ideal which Europe herself had only begun to outgrow in her last phase. Those Americans who wholly failed to realize this ideal, who remained at the bottom of the social ladder, either consoled themselves with hopes for the future, or stole symbolical satisfaction by identifying themselves with some popular star, or gloated upon their American citizenship, and applauded the arrogant foreign policy of their government."
"Thus it was that America sank further and further into Americanism. Vast wealth and industry, and also brilliant invention, were concentrated upon puerile ends. In particular the whole of American life was organized around the cult of the powerful individual, that phantom ideal which Europe herself had only begun to outgrow in her last phase. Those Americans who wholly failed to realize this ideal, who remained at the bottom of the social ladder, either consoled themselves with hopes for the future, or stole symbolical satisfaction by identifying themselves with some popular star, or gloated upon their American citizenship, and applauded the arrogant foreign policy of their government."
