“Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“The revolutions of the twentieth century, the liberation of the masses by production, created private life but gave nothing to fill it… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“And I hold with Spinoza (I hope he won’t mind) that to demand what is impossible for any human being, to exercise… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we all are put together. We are so proud of our… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Look out! Oh, you chump and weak fool, you are one of a humanity that can't be numbered and not more than… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
“On Broadway it was still bright afternoon and the gassy air was almost motionless under the leaden spokes of sunlight, and sawdust footprints lay… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow Copy Share
Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability. — Saul Bellow Copy Share
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
“But now the emphasis has shifted to making it. People have surrendered their personal moral objectives to government or schools or psychologists. It’s a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by. — Saul Bellow Copy Share
“I don't know how it all at once came to me to talk a lot, tell jokes, kick up, and suddenly have views. When… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
“For knowledge of death makes us wish to extend our lives at the expense of others. And this is the root of the struggle… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
