Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
“See Life steadily, see it whole.”
My special thanks, whose even-balanced soul,
From first youth tested up to extreme old age,
Business could not make dull, nor passion wild:
Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
—Matthew Arnold, "To a Friend" http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/A/ArnoldMatthew/verse/strayedreveller/friend.html from The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems (1849)
Misattributed
“Love is a verb… and Verbs show action”
Quotes from acting
Journals A 126 (March 1836)
1830s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1830s
Context: One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states). How many people are just adjectives, interjections, conjunctions, adverbs? How few are substantives, active verbs, how many are copulas? Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.
Source: Love and Will (1969), p. 100
Context: When we "fall" in love, as the expressive verb puts it, the world shakes and changes around us, not only in the way it looks but in our whole experience of what we are doing in the world. Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects … Love is the answer, we sing. … our Western culture seems to be engaged in a romantic — albeit desperate — conspiracy to enforce the illusion that that is all there is to eros.
