We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.
Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.
War is a specific product of civilization.
The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
Geneva has the sleepy tidiness of a man who combs his hair while yet in his pyjamas.
Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God's conception, or nature's. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created."We effectively became "time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers" with the invention of the clock."