In the history of human inquiry, philosophy has the place of the initial central sun, seminal and tumultuous; from time to time it... throws of some portion of itself to take station as a science, a planet, cool and well regulated, progressing steadily towards a distant final state.... Is it not possible that the next century may see the birth, through the joint efforts of philosophers, grammarians, and numerous other students of language, of a true and comprehensive science of language? Then we shall have rid ourselves of one more part of philosophy (there will still be plenty left) in the only way we ever can get rid of philosophy, by kicking it upstairs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not deny the existence of material substance merely because I have no notion of it, but because the notion of it is inconsist...ent, or in other words, because it is repugnant that there should be a notion of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The root of the discontent in American women is that they are too well educated.... There will be no real content among American w...omen unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Hear me," he said to the white commander. "I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. Our chiefs are dead; the little children are fre...ezing. My people have no blankets, no food. From where the sun stands, I will fight no more forever."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for my mother and I was going to do... something for the black man of the South if it would cost my life; I was determined to see that things were changed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »