Is light enough when this bewilderment crying against the dark shuts down the shades? Dilute confusion. Find and explode our... mist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers--they seem to jeopardize all our cherished concepts, even our s...elf-esteem, our property rights, our powers of love, our laws and pleasures. The only relationship we seem to have with them is scorn or bewilderment, but they belong somewhere on the dark prairies of a country that is in the throes of self-discovery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a... life is to go on asking them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What I ask of American Christianity is not to show us more creeds, but more of Christ; not more rites and ceremonies, but more rel...igion glowing with love and replete with life,--religion which will be to all weaker races an uplifting power, and not a degrading influence. Jesus Christ has given us a platform of life and duty from which all oppression and selfishness is necessarily excluded. While politicians may stumble on the barren mountains of fretful controversy and ask in strange bewilderment, "What shall we do with the weaker races?" I hold that Jesus Christ answered that question nearly two thousand years since. "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do you even so to them."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of or...der into incoherence; it, too, hangs together, makes sense, leaves no loose ends, and is never (but never) at a loss for explanation. In a state of bewilderment it may therefore bring comfort and relief.... give its subject a new and deeper understanding of his own condition and of the nature of his relationship to his fellow men. A mythical structure will be built up around him which makes sense and is believable-in, regardless of whether or not it is true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side... of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »