
In a letter to his wife Clemmie, during the build up to World War I.
Early career years (1898–1929)
Source: Small Gods
In a letter to his wife Clemmie, during the build up to World War I.
Early career years (1898–1929)
“Everything can tend toward diminishing returns and unsustainability, […] even in the short term.”
Source: The Long Emergency (2005), Chapter 7, p. 240.
Interview with CONMEBOL, 2015 http://www.conmebol.com/en/04132015-2140/messi-being-father-has-helped-me-grow-and-think-life-there-are-other-things-besides
Source: Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents
Unity and Multitude
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VI - Mind and Matter
Context: We can no longer separate things as we once could: everything tends towards unity; one thing, one action, in one place, at one time. On the other hand, we can no longer unify things as we once could; we are driven to ultimate atoms, each one of which is an individuality. So that we have an infinite multitude of things doing an infinite multitude of actions in infinite time and space; and yet they are not many things, but one thing.
“I see everything in a grotesque way.”
From an interview given in 1894, as quoted in Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography (1999) by Matthew Sturgis, p. 220
Context: I see everything in a grotesque way. When I go to the theatre, for example, things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them — the people on the stage, the footlights, the queer faces and garb of the audience in the boxes and stalls. They all seem weird and strange to me. Things have always impressed me in this way.