A quote from The Soul of Man Under Socialism
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A quote from The Soul of Man Under Socialism
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias. Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man under Socialism”
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In 1891, Oscar Wilde wrote: “A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at.”
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The maps of the world drawn by the medieval cartographers were so hopelessly inaccurate, so filled with factual error, that they elicit condescending smiles today when almost the entire surface of the earth has been charted. Yet the great explorers could never have discovered the New World without them. Nor could the better, more accurate maps of t
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Oscar Wilde quotes on leisure:
“Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.”
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
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