Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.
-- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#Fun #Play #Two
Everybody is a bit right.
-- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
He who believes in nothing still needs a girl to believe in him.
-- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#Girl #Believe #Needs
On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order.
-- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#Religious #Children #Giving Up
As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of the Church. People tried to think the new life without being touched by it first in some form of call, listening, passion or change of heart.
-- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#Passion #Heart #Thinking
He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run.
-- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#Running #Winning #Long
To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.
-- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#War #Men #Civil War
And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.
-- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#Next #Old Love #Lost
Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah.
-- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#Holiday #Mean #Men
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.
-- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#Names #Voice #Tone
Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.
-- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#Boredom #Waiting #Soldier
Sexuality throws no light upon love, but only through love can we learn to understand sexuality.
-- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#Sex #Light #Sexuality

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