A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colours would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.
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When we say science we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity . . .Wyndham Lewis
Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute At this the entire audience waves its hat or claps its hands. But this natural enthusiasm is turned abruptly into something much less buoyant when it is learnt that this liberty weighs us down immediately with tremendous responsibilities. We now have to take all God's worries on our shoulders --now that we are become ''men like gods.'' It is at this point that the Anxiety and Despondency begin, ending in utter despair.
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With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping ''homeliness'' entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all ''sentiment'' is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called ''the Public',' the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.
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A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.
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Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.
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