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Success (103)
There is a moral or metaphysical part of nature as well as a physical. A man who denies this is deep in the mire of folly. Tis the crown and glory of organic science that it does, thro' final cause, link material to moral; . . . You have ignored this link; and, if I do not mistake your meaning, you have done your best in one or two pregnant cases to break it. Were it possible (which, thank God, it is not) to break it, humanity, in my mind, would suffer a damage that might brutalize it, and sink the human race into a lower grade of degradation than any into which it has fallen since its written records tell us of its history. Adam Sedgwick, a Cambridge University professor, writing a letter to Darwin in 1859, shortly after reading The Origin of Species)
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success... wrong by wrong. Mae West
The mind of man was uncommonly stubborn and slow to change. Reformers, including himself, were always prone to forget that. Victory always seemed just around the corner. But generally it was not, after all. - Philip K. Dick, TheCrackinSpace (1965)
Homo sapiens is a unique animal. Physically he matures at approximately the age of thirteen. However, mental maturity and adjustment is often not fully realized until thirty or even more. Indeed, it is sometimes never achieved. Before such maturity is reached, our youth are susceptible to romantic appeal. Nationalism, chauvinism, racism, the supposed glory of the military, all seem romantic to the immature. They rebel at the ordinariness of present society. They seek entertainment in excitement. - Mack Reynolds, ‘‘Gun for Hire’’ (1960)
The city was extraordinary, Breckenridge admitted: an ultimate urban glory, a supernal Babylon, a consummate Persepolis, the soul’s own hymn in brick and stone. - Robert Silverberg, ‘‘Breckenridge and the Continuum’’ (1973)
‘‘Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,’’ the borderer said, still staring somberly at the Cimmerian. ‘‘Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph.’’ - Robert E. Howard, ‘‘Beyond the Black River’’ (1935)
There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. This be treason in an age when ignorance has come into its own and one man’s opinion is as good as another’s. - Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road (1963)
All perfection comes from within, and the perfection that is imposed from without is as frivolous and stupid as the trimmings on gingercake. The free man may be bad, but only the free man can be good. And all the kingdom and the power and the glory- call it of God, call it of Cosmos- must arise from the free will of man. - Anthony Boucher, ‘‘The Barrier’’ (1942)
Freedom was never more than a happy accident because the common jerk, all human races, hates and fears all freedom, not only for his neighbors but for himself, and stamps it out whenever possible. - Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road (1963)
Is it credible that our world should have two futures? I have seen them. Two entirely distinct futures lie before mankind, one dark, one bright; one the defeat of all man’s hopes, the betrayal of all his ideals, the other their hardwon triumph. - Olaf Stapledon, Darkness and the Light (1942)
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