The Spirit of Utopia Quotes

“But for us who live over and over the final thing we did not fear to see thereby also begins to be very near. We have to set the course; on us lies the agony of choosing a direction, but we immediately go along as ourselves and not as mere memories; we follow the good, living way, the way of the goal, to its end, since we ourselves are this way.”
― Ernst Bloch, The Spirit of Utopia

“There is nothing there yet if nothing has vanished but distress.”
― Ernst Bloch, The Spirit of Utopia

“To find it, to find the right thing, for which it is worthy to live, to be organized, and to have time: that is why we go, why we cut new, metaphysically constitutive paths, summon what is not, build into the blue, and build ourselves into the blue, and there seek the true, the real, where the merely factual disappears—incipit vita nova.”
― Ernst Bloch, The Spirit of Utopia