“But the conflict has not ended and the fight between the two rival forces-capitalism and socialism-goes on. There can be no permanent compromise between the two although there have been, and there may be in the future, temporary arrangements and treaties between the two. Russia and communism stand at one pole, and the great capitalist countries of Western Europe and America stand at the other. Between the two, the liberals, the moderates, and the centre parties are disappearing everywhere.”

1963 edition, p. 680
Human Action (1949)

Source: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959), P. 4

Source: The War of Art (2002), p. 13

Essays, Goethe's Works.
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)

Broadcast (3 January 1948), quoted in The Times (5 January 1948), p. 4
Prime Minister

(18 December 1921).
I'm Glad You Asked Me That (2007)

1990s, The Rum Diary (1998)
Context: Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles — a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other — that kept me going.