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“A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities.”

Ends Society Strive Refuse Lacking

Book:Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959

Source: Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959

“Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet.”

Kind Ends Seems Together Society Opposites All Kinds Moderates Crowded Fanatics

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.”

“In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.”

Way Ends Whole Society Prepared Shock Inward Decrease Annihilation Degeneration

Book:Force and Freedom: Reflections on History

Source: Force and Freedom: Reflections on History

“The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.”

Ends Society Movement Aim Finals Calm Permanent Utopian

Book:Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The

Source: Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The

“To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our world and harmonize our existence with nature, humanity, and ourselves, and leads to greater freedom and self-realization. Metaphysics is only the beginning. The end is human progress.”