💬 Quotes

"Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name."

"It is clear to me that the time must come when the miserable shored-upobsolescence of our present system will give way to a state of things where we shall live easily, calmly, and intelligently."

"Instead of machinery being used for finding out means for creating fresh work, hitherto unthought of, it is used for the shortening of labour-time."

"Go back and be the man for whom the future is to be built; look at these gardens and this happy people, and carry back their message to the world of toil."

"Think of the sweep of it! It is grand—it is awful. To think that humanity, with all its sins and strivings, should be swept out of the path of evolution so easily."

"We are standing upon the threshold of the unknown, and for a flash we may see a little clearer than our fellows."

"Science should be a cold, clear light, unaffected by any hope or fear of the observer, yet here we are, quivering like children in the dark."

"It is the smallness of man that strikes me most. We bulk so large in our own mirrors, and yet a drift of poisoned gas from the depths of space can extinguish us utterly in an hour."

"If you wish to view the true nature of your species, watch how they behave when they believe the end has come. The veneer is terribly thin."

"We have been granted a second chance, a fresh start upon a cleansed earth. It remains to be seen whether we have learned anything from the clearance."

"A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the fresh air, he drowns—hush! There is no way out."

"And because he hadcomboBox no ordinary mind, he had to take himself too seriously, and do some sort of tragic stunt."

"He is one of us."

"In the destructive element immerse. That was the way. To follow the dream, and again to follow the dream, and so—inwigilating—weary, but sure of no rest, till the dark star puts out the rest."

"Nobody, unless he has looked into the face of a madness, can know what that means."

"He is gone, inscrutable at heart, and full of mysterious devices, the wanderer upon a sea whose gulfs are fathomless."

"Miracles, do you believe in them? I think miracles are not the cessation of the natural law, but the full perception and utilization of it."

"The great Indian, Eusabio, stood against the pale sky like a bronze statue. He seemed to belong to the very soil, as if he had been formed out of the red earth."

"It was his <strong>mission</strong> to be alone, to walk in the desert and find God not in the noise of cities, but in the vast, silent spaces."

"A man's life is a journey through a wilderness, and the only light we have is the grace of God shining upon our path."