Kant's Inaugural Dissertation (1770), Section IV On The Principle Of The Form Of The Intelligible World
Writers at Work interview (1963)
“But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it.”
Pt. 3: At Sea, Section 21
Islands in the Stream (1970)
“… imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.”
Lightsong the Bold
Warbreaker (2009)
“True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”
Source: Message in a Bottle
Michel Henry, Marx II. une philosophie de l’économie, éd. Gallimard, coll. « Nrf », 1976, p. 435
Books on Economy and Politics, Marx. A Philosophy of Human Being (1976)
Original: (fr) Comment le capital trouve sa substance et son essence dans le travail vivant, de telle manière qu’il provient exclusivement de lui, ne peut se passer de lui, ne vit que pour autant qu’il puise à chaque instant sa vie dans celle du travailleur, vie qui devient ainsi la sienne, c’est ce qu’exprime à travers toute l’œuvre de Marx le thème du vampire. « Le capital est du travail mort qui, semblable au vampire, ne s’anime qu’en suçant le travail vivant et sa vie est d’autant plus allègre qu’il en pompe davantage ».
Source: My Utmost for His Highest: Selections for the Year
“Morality and literature,” pp. 161-162
On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968)
Context: It is not only in literature that fiction generates immorality. It does it also in life itself. For the substance of our life is almost exclusively composed of fiction. We fictionalize our future, and, unless we are heroically devoted to truth, we fictionalize our past, refashioning it to our taste. We do not study other people; we invent what they are thinking, saying, and doing. Reality provides us with some raw material, just as novelists often take a theme from a news item, but we envelop it in a fog in which, as in all fiction, values are reversed, so that evil is attractive and good is tedious.
Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (1985)
