47 ordspråk av Malcolm Muggeridge
Malcolm Muggeridge
Malcolm Muggeridge föddes den 24 maart 1903 och dog den 14 november 1990 - English writer
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 Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. |
| Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. |
| St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel. |
| Surely the glory of journalism is its transience. |
| Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity. |
| The first thing I remember about the world...is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which is at once the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life. |
| The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity. |
| The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance. |
| The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment |
| The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth. |
| The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized. |
| The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island. |
| The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island. |
| There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. |
| There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase ''the pursuit of happiness'' is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world. |
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