“Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.”
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
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Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator 1908–1950Related quotes
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 230)
Source: Our Enemy, the State (1935), p. 209
Context: In every civilization, however generally prosaic, however addicted to the short-time point of view on human affairs, there are always certain alien spirits who, while outwardly conforming to the requirements of the civilization around them, still keep a disinterested regard for the plain intelligible law of things, irrespective of any practical end. They have an intellectual curiosity, sometimes touched with emotion, concerning the august order of nature; they are impressed by the contemplation of it, and like to know as much about it as they can, even in circumstances where its operation is ever so manifestly unfavourable to their best hopes and wishes.
Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Ch.4 Why Has Christianity Never Undertaken the Work of Social Reconstruction?, p. 149-150
Source: 1920s, Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), Ch. 2, as translated by James Strachey, p.62
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