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“Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.”
“Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.”
Source: Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer
“Utopia is not one of the options.”
“Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.”
“Utopia is something that I think about in connection to an experience I had when I was a kid.”
“Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.”
Source: Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947
“Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic, aerial vision to the point where it rejoins its own source: the very cynicism it sought to combat. In short, a monstrous fantasy.”
“Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.”
Source: Pacific Edge: Three Californias
“Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance.”
“Utopia means elsewhere.”
“Utopia o distopia, l’AI è il nostro futuro.”
Source: Hotel Distribution 2050. (Pre)visioni sul futuro di hotel marketing e distribuzione alberghiera
“Utopia retains throughout its long history the basic form of the narrative of a journey... First comes the picture of a happy people in a beautiful and well-ordered setting; then comes the lecture on how it all came about, how it works, and, by implication, how it might be made to work in the traveller's own society.”
Source: Utopianism
“Utopia retains throughout its long history the basic form of the narrative of a journey. The traveler in space or time is an explorer who happens upon utopia. He (or, more recently, she) meets its people, usually at first its ordinary people, observes them at work and play, sees their dwellings and their cities... The traveler is, as are we, the more prepared to accept the validity and desirability of the general principles for having seen with his own eyes its effects in the daily life of its inhabitants.”
Source: Utopianism
“Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom.”
Source: Childhood’s End
“Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.”
Source: Childhood’s End
“Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation.”
“Utopia's quite another land;
In her enterprising movements,
She is England--with improvements”
Source: The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan
“Utopian fiction is really boring. I had to read a lot of it, and it's not that much fun. But they're fascinating to me as historical documents. Cabet [Icaria's founder and author of the utopian novel, Travels in Icaria], is writing in the 1830s, and his idea of the perfect society reveals a lot about his time. But his book is uniquely bad.”
“Utopian movements produce dystopias.”
“Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope.”
Source: Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
“Utopianism also attempts to shape and dominate the individual by doing two things at once: it strips the individual of his uniqueness, making him indistinguishable from the multitudes that form what is commonly referred to as 'the masses,' but it simultaneously assigns him a group identity based on race, ethnicity, age, gender, income, etc., to highlight differences within the masses.”
“Utopianism also finds a receptive audience among the society's disenchanted, disaffected, dissatisfied, and maladjusted who are unwilling or unable to assume responsibility for their own real or perceived conditions but instead blame their surroundings, 'the system,' and others. They are lured by the false hopes and promises of utopian transformation and the criticisms of the existing society, to which their connection is tentative or nonexistent. Improving the malcontent's lot becomes linked to the utopian cause. Moreover, disparaging and diminishing the successful and accomplished becomes an essential tactic. No one should be better than anyone else, regardless of the merits or values of his contributions. By exploiting human frailties, frustrations, jealousies, and inequities, a sense of meaning and self-worth is created in the malcontent's otherwise unhappy and directionless life. Simply put, equality in misery -- that is, equality of result or conformity -- is advanced as a just, fair, and virtuous undertaking. Liberty, therefore, is inherently immoral, except where it avails equality.”
Source: Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America
“Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.”
Source: Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries
“Utopianism's equality is intolerant of diversity, uniqueness, debate, etc., for utopianism's purpose requires a singular focus. There can be no competing voices or causes slowing or obstructing society's long and righteous march. Utopianism relies on deceit, propaganda, dependence, intimidation, and force. In its more aggressive state, as the malignancy of the enterprise becomes more painful and its impossibility more obvious, it incites violence inasmuch as avenues for free expression and civil dissent are cut off. Violence becomes the individual's primary recourse and the state's primary response. Ultimately, the only way out is the state's termination.”
Source: Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America
“Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.”
Source: Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America
“Utopians don't say, 'The world's corrupt, women make less money, people of color are oppressed at every turn.' You don't list the problems of the world; you describe a world in which those things aren't the case. The critique is implicit and as a result it's kind of a positive critique. You're not listing what's bad, but rather what would be good - you're oriented toward this positive vision.”
“Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.”
“Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.”
“Utopias are often just premature truths.”
“Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of the imagination. I suggest there is a simple test we can apply. We must forget the whole paraphernalia of social description, demonstration, expostulation, approbation, condemnation. We have to say to ourselves, How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?”
“Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they can prove literally fatal.”
Source: The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas
“Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their realization.”
“Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.”
Source: My works and days: a personal chronicle
“utres inflati ambulamus. minoris quam muscae sumus, muscae tamen aliquam uirtutem habent, nos non pluris sumus quam bullae.”
Source: The Satyricon
“UTSL, which Maxine at first takes for an anagram of LUST or possibly SLUT but later learns is Unix for “Use The Source, Luke.”
Source: Bleeding Edge
“Utter frustration often precedes the breakthrough so stick with it and have faith in your journey.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.”
Source: The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941
“Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.”
“Utter words that make the world a better place. Speak with kindness, honesty, and grace. Encourage, inspire, and motivate. Appreciate, celebrate, and congratulate. It is through what you say that you can make someone’s day.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“Utterance is the evidence of foregone study.”
Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846
“Utterance"
Sitting over words
Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing
Not far
Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark
The echo of everything that has ever
Been spoken
Still spinning its one syllable
Between the earth and silence”
Source: The Rain in the Trees
“Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
“Utterly absorbing.... If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take you there.”
“Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.”
“Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos!”
“Utterly, irrevocably, lost”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Utöver alla filosofiska såpoperor
är min enda grund kärlek.
Utöver all politisk hysteri
är min enda lojalitet mot världen.”
Source: Världsviking: Gudomlig Poesi
“Uusia herätyksiä ei Nilsiässä tapahtunut niinä aikoina kuin joku aniharva. Seuroja kyllä pidettiin, mutta ne olivat kuin "nukkuneen rukousta". Hysteeriset naiset yrittivät vielä vanhalta muistolta primputtaa kielillä, mutta kun ei sitä täydestä otettu, herkesivät hekin. Tällä kannalla pysyivät olot vuoteen 1888 saakka.”
Source: Puoli vuosisataa heränneiden keskuudessa – Muistelmia
“UV is bad for molecules because its high energy breaks the bonds between a molecule's constituent atoms. That's why UV is bad for you, too: it's always best to avoid things that decompose the molecules of your flesh.”