"Then we are assured by Sartre that owing……" — 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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45 Quotes by Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis has 45 quotes on this site.
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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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No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a…
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When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect:…
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Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a…
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As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.
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If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and…
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Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
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Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary…
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Art is the expression of an enormous preference.
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But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that…
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What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?
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The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives,…
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The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as…
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We would never move forward in the face of negative emotion. There are many people who would teach you otherwise.…
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In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and…
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Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the…
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Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger,
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Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do. Winter is the only one that has to be relearned.
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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not…
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