Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by James Ramsey Ullman

Quote by James Ramsey Ullman

Work

River of the Sun

This book is a work of speculative fiction, following the journey of a protagonist through a mystical landscape, encountering various cultures and challenges along the way. more

Author

James Ramsey Ullman
James Ramsey Ullman

James Ramsey Ullman, born in 1907, was a renowned American writer. His works spanned across various genres including novels, poetry, and drama, known for their unique literary style and profound thematic content. more

You May Also Like

“We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by a neater turn, or bring it alongside of another truth, which may make it clearer, and thereby accumulate evidence. It belongs to the inventive faculty to see clearly the relative state of things, and to be able to place them in connection; but the discoveries of ages gone by belong less to their first authors than to those who make them practically useful to the world.”

“The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive — a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good, say the mystics of muscle, is Society — a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form, a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself.... The purpose of man's life, say both, is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.”