The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.
Not to be born is the best for man.

W.H. Auden

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Topic

Desire The human condition

Author

W.H. Auden

Source

Death's Echo

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1937 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Auden, W. H. Death's Echo. 1937.

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Another quote by W.H. Auden

Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our table.

W.H. Auden

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Topic
Nature of evil Evil

Author

W.H. Auden
Source
Herman Melville
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
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Citation

Auden, W. H. "Herman Melville." Another Time. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1940.

Another quote from the 1930s

Patriotism, as I see it, is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan

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Topic
Downsides of patriotism Patriotism

Author

George Jean Nathan
Language
English
Time
1931 1930s 20th century
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Citation

Nathan, George Jean. Testament of a Critic. A. A. Knopf, 1931, bk. 1.

Another quote about The human condition

Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea.

John Stuart Mill

The Utility of Religion

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Topic
The mysterious Mysteriousness of the universe The human condition

Author

John Stuart Mill
Source
The Utility of Religion
Medium
Essay
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1873 1870s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Mill, John Stuart. "The Utility of Religion." Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1874.

Current Citation

Mill, John Stuart. "The Contest in America." Essays on Ethics, Religion and Society. Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, edited by John M. Robson. Vol. 10, Routledge, 2014.