Section 3, Chapter 19, p. 287
Source: The Gods Themselves (1972)
1990s, The End of History and the Last Man (1992)
“Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.”
Source: Ex Machina, Vol. 10: Term Limits
“The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong.”
2015, State of the Union Address (January 2015)
“Happiness is not an end — it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.”
Source: A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 10
Context: Happiness is not an end — it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. The Omnipotent Himself could never be supposed by any, save those who out of their own human selfishness construct the attributes of Divinity, to be absorbed throughout eternity in the contemplation of His own ineffable bliss, were it not identical with His ineffable goodness and love.
Arthur Cecil Pigou, As quoted in Business Cycles : The Problem and Its Setting (1927) by Wesley Clair Mitchell, p. 19
How It All Began : The Prison Novel, one of Bukharin's final works while in prison, as translated by George Shriver, (1998), Ch.8
Source: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XV-IXX, Chapter XVIII.
