““Is there anyone in Chasm City she hasn’t deceived?”
“Possibly, somewhere, but only as an extreme theoretical possibility.””

Source: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 12 (p. 177).

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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)

version in original Dutch (origineel citaat van Hendrik Werkman, in het Nederlands): ..niet het bekende paradijs, maar het onbekende, ergens in een werelddeel dat nog door geen mensch uit de cultuurstaten is ontdekt – daarheen ben ik gevlucht [in zijn prenten!] omdat het in onze wereld haast niet meer uit te houden is.
in his letter (nr. 143) to Julia Henkels, 15 July 1942; as cited in H. N. Werkman - Leven & Werk - 1882-1945, ed. A. de Vries, J. van der Spek, D. Sijens, M. Jansen; WBooks, Groninger Museum / Stichting Werkman, 2015 (transl: Fons Heijnsbroek), p. 120
Werkman is referring to his series prints 'Vrouweneiland / Women-island', D-288 - D-311, he made in 1942]
1940's

Treasure Box (1996)

1950s, General Systems Theory - The Skeleton of Science, 1956

Source: Why We Fail as Christians (1919), p. 78
Context: Tolstoy deplored all the modern tendencies toward immense congregations of people in limited areas, on the ground that they were making more and more impossible the truly Christian life. In cities the rich find little restraint to their lusts, while the lusts of the poor are greater there than in the country, and they satisfy them up to the limit of their means. In the country, Tolstoy could still see the possibility of men living a Christian life; in the cities he saw no such possibility. Cities had therefore to be uprooted and destroyed. The people had to get back to the soil.

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray