When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.


Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1858–May 1959 (1969)


When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.