If the passion for truthfulness is merely controlled and stilled without being satisfied, it will kill the activities it is supposed to support. This may be one of the reasons why, at the present time, the study of the humanities runs a risk of sliding from professional seriousness, through professionalization, to a finally disenchanted careerism.
- Bernard Williams
- Bernard Williams
We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
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In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be a good idea to stop being young this minute, to wait for youth to break away from you and pass you by, to watch it going away, receding in the distance, to see all its vanity, run your hand through the empty space it has left behind, take a last look at it, and then start moving, make sure your youth has really gone, and then calmly, all by yourself, cross to the other side of Time to see what people and things really look like.
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.
- Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays
- Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays