“For twenty years I strove to free myself from what I retained of my education; I indulged my curiosity by reading books less to learn than to efface from my memory the ideas that had been thrust upon it.””
Quotes by Georges Sorel
“Verbal communication is much easier than written communication, because words act on the feelings in a mysterious way and easily establish a current of sympathy between people; it is for this reason that an orator is able to produce conviction by arguments which do not seem very comprehensible to any one reading the speech later.””
“The myths are not descriptions of things but expressions of a determination to act””
“All the future of socialism resides in the autonomous development of workers’ syndicates””
“George S. Kaufman was not Miss Astor’s last love. George had been supplanted in her affections by one of his best friends, whose name would surely have been disclosed had the hearing gone on. The scoop appeared on August 12 in the Daily Mirror, announcing that the best friend, an unnamed dashing broker and bachelor, maintained a seven-room penthouse on Park Avenue, complete with butler and maid. Kaufman had introduced Mary to “Mr. Big” in December, according to the Mirror.””
Georges SorelGeorges Sorel was a French philosopher and social theorist known for his influential ideas on socialism and the role of myth in social movements. Born into a bourgeois family, Sorel initially pursued ...