#2,786

Even if he were to succeed in making his most audacious utopias a reality, man would continue to yearn for otherworldly destinies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 447

#2,713

A simple fit of impatience often soon bridges the distance between utopia and murder.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 437

#2,712

The modern clergy declare that Christianity seeks to solve earthly problems—thereby confusing it with utopia.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 436

#2,331

Earth will never be a paradise, but it could perhaps be prevented from coming closer and closer to being a vulgar imitation of hell.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 378

#2,283

“The Kingdom of God” is not the Christian name for a futuristic paradise.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 370

#2,068

The city imagined by every utopian is always tacky—beginning with that of the Apocalypse.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 335

#1,496

Just as dangerous as believing the desirable to be possible is believing the possible to be desirable.
Sentimental utopias and automatisms of technology.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 252

#1,193

No paradise will arise within the bounds of time.
Because good and evil are not threads braided by history, but fibers of the only thread which sin spun for us.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 209

#1,168

If it is merely a matter of organizing an earthly paradise, curates are more than enough.
The devil will do.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 205

#724

Modern conflicts originate less in the intention to conquer the enemy than in the desire to suppress conflict.
Booty, ideology, or adventure has motivated fewer wars in our time than the idyllic dream of peace.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 132