“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
Source: The Haunting of Hill House
Source: The Haunting of Hill House
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
Source: The Haunting of Hill House
Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Empire (1952), Chapter 13 “Lieutenant and Clown”
Speech in Newcastle (28 September 1959) during the general election campaign, quoted in The Times (29 September 1959), p. 10
Leader of the Labour Party
The Development Hypothesis (1852)
Context: The supporters of the Development Hypothesis... can show that any existing species—animal or vegetable—when placed under conditions different from its previous ones, immediately begins to undergo certain changes fitting it for the new conditions. They can show that in successive generations these changes continue; until, ultimately, the new conditions become the natural ones. They can show that in cultivated plants, in domesticated animals, and in the several races of men, such alterations have taken place. They can show that the degrees of difference so produced are often, as in dogs, greater than those on which distinctions of species are in other cases founded.
"Are Shelters the Answer?", in The New York Times Magazine (26 November 1961), p. 125
1960s
“Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.”
As quoted in Pastoral Care for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Healing the Shattered Soul (2002) by Dalene Fuller Rogers and Harold G. Koenig, p. 31