The final revelation comes when you look at these City-men on the train; for you realize that for them, the business of escaping is complicated by the fact that they think they are the prison. An asto...
One of man's deepest habits is keeping alert for dangers and difficulties, refusing to allow himself to explore his own mind because he daren't take his eyes off the world around him.
As a young man I was scornful about the supernatural but as I have got older, the sharp line that divided the credible from the incredible has tended to blur; I am aware that the whole world is slight...
إن المفترين على الحياة هم الذين يعيشون غالبا حياة طويلة و يانعة. و من المهم أن نقارن على سبيل المثال بين قدر شوبنهاور المفتري على الحياة و نيتشه الشاهد عليها، أو بين دي ساد المنحط جنسيا و لورنس الصوفي...
Thinking about such a situation, one becomes aware of the human lack of detachment; our inexperience and immaturity in the complex problems of the human condition. But it should not be so. We have the...
It is important to graps that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of being 'dead inside'; that is to say, loss of contact with o...
العبادة هي الموقف الصحيح إزاء الحقيقة.
Yet it is the Outsider’s belief that life aims at more life, at higher forms of life, something for which the Superman is an inexact poetic symbol (as Dante’s description of the beatific vision is exp...
The Outsider is always unhappy, but he is the agent that ensures happiness for millions of ‘Insiders’.
She admitted that his nerves were ragged. 'But why?' asked Reich. Surely things were going excellently for the company. 'Oh yes,' she said. 'But when a man is President of a concern as big as A.I.U.,...
Sentencing Packer, Judge Melville Gerry gave vent to his feelings along unexpectedly political lines: There were only seven Democrats in Hinsdale County, and you ate five of them, you depraved Republi...
It leads to a realization that man is not a constant, unchanging being: he is one person one day, another person the next. He forgets easily, lives in the moment, seldom exerts will-power, and even wh...
I planned a mystical order that should buy or hire the castle, and keep it as a place where its members could retire for a while for contemplation, and where we might establish mysteries like those of...
إن رشاردسون علم أوروبا كيف تستغرق فى الحلم، أما روسو فقد علمها كيف تفكر.
إن الرواية أولاً وقبل كل شئ ليس الغرض منها تقديم المتعة للقارئ فحسب، بل إنها وسيلة تساعد الكاتب على هضم تجربته.
إن الأفراد الذين يملكون الشجاعة لتحقيق ذواتهم لا يموتون بسبب السرطان. بينما نجد الرجال الذين لديهم مثل هذه الإمكانيات، غير أنهم يفتقرون إلى التعبير عنها يشكلون نسبة كبيرة من مرضى السرطان. حيث أن عدم ث...
The real difference between the Marxian and the romantic Outsider is that one would like to bring heaven down to earth, the other dreams of raising earth up to heaven. To the Outsider, the Marxian see...
Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes 'pick up' accidentally, as your radio might pick up...
One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full and adequate picture of the meaning of life. All discussions of 'life' which begin wi...
Oh . . . I'd been getting pretty sick of the office. It made me feel dead inside. Finally, the week-ends weren't long enough to get it out of my system. I couldn't read poetry or listen to music. It w...