Charles Fourier: The Visionary and His World, J. Beecher (1986), p. 315
New Amorous World
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.”
“There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence.”
3 (20 October 1917); as published in The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954); also in Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings (1954); variant translations use "cardinal sins" instead of "main human sins" and "laziness" instead of "indolence".
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Context: There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.
Source: Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937), p. 50.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
Interview by Hanns Johst in Frankforter Volksblatt (January 27, 1934), quoted in David Schoenbaum, Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933–1939 (New York: NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1997), p. 57
1930s
“From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?”
Source: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 14, Professor Again, p. 267
Source: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), Chapter 4, "The Sorcerer Pharesm"
