All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, "Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley." Or, ..."Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Coleridge observes that all men are born Aristotelians or Platonists. The latter feel that classes, orders, and genres are realiti...es; the former, that they are generalizations. For the latter, language is nothing but an approximative set of symbols; for the former, it is the map of the universe. The Platonist knows that the universe is somehow a cosmos, an order; that order, for the Aristotelian, can be an error or a fiction of our partial knowledge. Across the latitudes and the epochs, the two immortal antagonists change their name and language: one is Parmenides, Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Francis Bradley; the other, Heraclitus, Aristotle, Locke, Hume, William James.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with p...laythings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at... once.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One said of suicide, "As long as one has brains one should not blow them out." And another answered, "But when one has ceased to h...ave them, too often one cannot."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »