Tag: Sábios

  • B516

    B515 B517 [BTG XXX Art, p. 516] “And the means of tickling which infallibly act on the psyche of these unfortunate favorites of yours are as I noticed during my stay there, the following: “Suppose that the face of one of these representatives of art resembles the face of a crocodile, then be sure to…

  • B37

    B36 B38 [BTG I The arousing of thought, pp. 1-37/38] Thereupon the salesman, making as is said the “oleaginous” face proper to all salesmen, replied that the book indeed cost only forty-five kopecks, but had to be sold at sixty because fifteen kopecks were added for postage. After this reply to our Russian merchant who…

  • B1159

    B1158 B1160 [BTG XLV Extraction of Electricity, p. 1159] “And when during the further explanations of Gornahoor Rakhoorkh, I, by association, remembered the request of the great Toof-Nef-Tef of the planet Mars, I then with all my being became aware without any doubt of all the maleficent consequences of just this manifestation of the three-brained…

  • B1158

    B1157 B1159 [BTG XLV Extraction of Electricity, p. 1158] “’I repeat, as a result of all my experimental elucidations, I very definitely cognized for myself and acquired indubitable data for the possibilities of proving from every aspect to all those around me, beings like myself, that the destruction in the presences of the planet and…

  • B1156

    B1155 B1157 [BTG XLV Extraction of Electricity, p. 1156] “After having thought a little at the question which I had put to him, Gornahoor Rakhoorkh replied with deep seriousness: “’At the beginning of my existence, namely, at the age when I was still preparing to be a responsible being, I – as is proper to…

  • B1155

    B1154 B1156 [BTG XLV Extraction of Electricity, p. 1155] “I may as well say also that these perches of theirs are usually embellished with various knick-knacks or carved with all kinds of figures, just as is done by your favorites also, when they manifest the same weakness in regard to what they call their ‘furniture.’…

  • B1154

    B1153 B1155 [BTG XLV Extraction of Electricity, p. 1154] “Though the newcomer had exactly the same exterior as his ‘producer’ he had the appearance of being very virile and full of fiery youth. “When he had taken his place on his perch, as is proper to the three-brained beings of that planet, he began, as…

  • B1153

    B1152 B1154 [BTG XLV Extraction of Electricity, p. 1153] “After having paused a little, he added that in respect of the knowledge attained of the question of the cosmic substance Okidanokh his heir had already, as he expressed himself, ‘smelled-out-its-very-essence.’ “He said further that owing to the results of the scientific attainments of his heir,…

  • B1152

    B1151 B1153 [BTG XLV Extraction of Electricity, p. 1152] “Hre-Hree-Hra means there one of those periods of time determined by a certain position occupied by this planet in relation, on the one hand to the sun of its system, and on the other, to another planet of this same system called Neptune. “There are in…

  • B1145

    B1144 <=> B1146 [BTG XLV Extraction of Electricity, p. 1145] Chapter XLV In the Opinion of Beelzebub, Man’s Extraction of Electricity from Nature and Its Destruction During Its Use, Is One of the Chief Causes of the Shortening of the Life of Man DEPOIS que Belzebu ouviu o conteúdo do Leitoochanbros e o colocou ao…

  • B1140

    B1139 B1141 [BTG XLIV Understanding of justice, p. 1140] “Thanks to the aforesaid Boolmarshano of his and according to other data elucidated by me there on the spot, there was crystallized in me, both concerning Makary Kronbernkzion himself and everything else, my own special opinion, entirely different from the one which the righteous dwellers of…

  • B1139

    B1138 B1140 [BTG XLIV Understanding of justice, p. 1139] “’Owing to the fact that the first of the mentioned three independent forces arising from vivifying actions proceeding in the very foundation of the cause of everything existing and thus receives in its presence the germ of the possibility of manifesting vivifyingness, it may be considered…

  • B1137

    B1136 B1138 [BTG XLIV Understanding of justice, p. 1137] “Although after brief negotiations he agreed to show it to me, yet he did not wish to sell it for any money at all; nevertheless, as a result of my talks and persuasions of several days, he allowed me to make an alabaster copy of it…

  • B1136

    B1135 B1137 [BTG XLIV Understanding of justice, p. 1136] “In this same subconsciousness of theirs, owing to many causes formed in them, that particularity of the common psyche of the three-brained beings also accidentally survived which, in general, might function under certain conditions and which is called the ‘seeing-and-sensing-of-what-has-occurred-in-the-remote-past.’ “And so, my boy, when during…

  • B219

    B218 B220 [BTG XX Beelzebub’s third flight, p. 219] “To the inventor himself of this ingenious ‘religious-doctrine,’ namely, the wise King Konuzion, the sacred ‘Rascooarno’ had occurred long before this time, that is to say, he had long previously ‘died.’ “But of course owing once again to the strangeness of the psyche of your favorites,…

  • B1104

    B1103 B1105 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1104] “This ingenious and energetic Persian dervish Assadulla Ibrahim Ogly, here, there, and everywhere, very cleverly persuaded these other dervishes of the ‘truth’ of his idea, and these in their turn now everywhere persuaded the ordinary beings of the continent Asia that the destruction of the…

  • B1103

    B1102 B1104 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1103] “So it continued until that time when a certain famous Assadulla Ibrahim Ogly, a Persian dervish who obtained his arising and who was formed into a responsible being on that same continent, turned all this in another direction. “The dervish Assadulla Ibrahim Ogly began his…

  • B1101

    B1100 B1102 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1101] “And on that same day, the name of that society was changed. “Some days later, the members of that society now under the new motto, ‘The-Earth-Only-for-Men,’ dispersed from the city Mosulopolis to their native countries where, under the general instructions issuing from the philosopher Atarnakh,…

  • B1100

    B1099 B1101 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1100] “’If the universal laws I have discovered are opposed to the means you expected might bring a certain happiness to mankind, then, however strange it may seem to you at first glance, if only these same laws be employed otherwise, they might serve for the…

  • B1099

    B1098 B1100 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1099] “It was only after this categorical resolution was proposed when all the members without exception of that indeed serious society decided to begin that same day the complete liquidation of all their affairs; only then did that, in the opinion held there, truly learned, though…