“Every utopia about to be realized resembles a cynical dream.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
“Every utopia about to be realized resembles a cynical dream.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
“Through buried paths, where sleepy twilight dreams
The summer time away.”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
“Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.”
Arthur Miller (1915–2005) playwright from the United States
“Democratic man, dreaming eternally of Utopias, is ever a prey to shibboleths.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
1920s, Notes on Democracy (1926)
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 30