Jack London Quotes, Judging Quotes, Shadow Quotes

There is another way of disqualifying the metaphysicians.... Judge them by their works. What have they done for mankind beyond the spinning of airy fancies and the mistaking of their own shadows for gods?

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He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him it stood as the greatest of hurts. It was the very essence of the unknown; it was the sum of the terrors of the unknown, the one culminating and unthinkable catastrophe that could happen to him, about which he knew nothing and about which he feared everything.

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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.

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Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.

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I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.

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Make good the good in you...and you will slowly steal into the Hawaiian heart, which is all of softness, and gentleness, and sweetness.

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San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

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Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span.

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It was the worst hurt he had ever known.

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[Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers] A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the strength of his body, managed to feed his wife and children, so that through him the race survived. You on the other hand, armed with all the modern means of production, multiplying the productive capacity of the cave man a million times — you are incompetents and muddlers, you are unable to secure to millions even the paltry amount of bread that would sustain their physical life. You have mismanaged the world, and it shall be taken from you.

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No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.

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...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

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Pray do not interrupt me," he wrote. "I am smiling.

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As for me, you wonder why I am a socialist. I'll tell you. It is because socialism is inevitable; because the present rotten and irrational system cannot endure; because the day is past for your man on horseback. The slaves won't stand for it. They are too many, and willy-nilly they'll drag down the would-be equestrian before he gets astride. You can't get away from them, and you'll have to swallow the whole slave-morality. It's not a nice mess, I'll allow. But it's been a-brewing and swallow it you must.

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This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.

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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.

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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

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He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.

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The hand descended. Nearer and nearer it came. It touched the ends of his upstanding hair. He shrank down under it. It followed down after him, pressing more closely against him. Shrinking, almost shivering. He still managed to hold himself together. It was a torment, this hand that touched him and violated his instinct. He could not forget in a day all the evil that had been wrought him at the hands of men.

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