Almost all marriages are only concubinages, liaisons, or rather provisional attempts, remote approximations of real marriage. The ...true nature of marriage does not conform to the paradoxes of this or that system, but rather according to all canonical and secular laws that more than one person should become only one. This ought to warrant the least possible infringement of free will, which certainly has a right to be consulted when the question at issue is whether one is to be an individual or only the integral part of a common personality; it is even hard see what legitimate argument can be raised against a marriage à quatre. But if the state must insist on holding together those attempts at marriage that have failed, it is actually obstructing marriage, for its cause would be advanced by new and possibly more successful attempts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Greeks would not have called the ocean atrugetos, or unfruitful, though it does not produce wheat, if they had viewed it by th...e light of modern science, for naturalists now assert that "the sea, and not the land, is the principal seat of life,"Mthough not of vegetable life.... The dry land itself came through and out of the water in its way to the heavens, for, "in going back through the geological ages, we come to an epoch when, according to all appearances, the dry land did not exist, and when the surface of our globe was entirely covered with water." We looked on the sea, then, once more, not as atrugetos, or unfruitful, but as it has been more truly called, the "laboratory of continents."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist ec...onomy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a tendency to discuss surrealism and cubism as if one proceeds out of the other, but in fact there is no similarity. Cubi...sm was a way of painting that a group of painters imposed on themselves, surrealism a philosophy of life put forward by a band of poets. The first was essentially a method of breaking up the object and putting it together again according to concepts of pictorial structure, a phase of the greatest importance in the development of such painters as Picasso, Braque, Marcoussis, and Gris, but affecting literature only through Apollinaire, and life hardly at all. The second was the attempt of a highly organized group to change life altogether, to make a new kind of man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bot...tom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no assurance of the great fact in question [namely, immortality]. All the arguments are mere probabilities, analogies, fa...ncies, whims. We believe, or disbelieve, or are in doubt according to our own make-up--to accidents, to education, to environment. For myself, I do not reach either faith or belief ... that I--the conscious person talking to you--will meet you in the world beyond--you being yourself a conscious person--the same person now reading what I say.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But he [Bramhall] adds that we must subject them, according to that presentiality which they have in eternity, which he says canno...t be done by them that conceive eternity to be an everlasting succession, but only by them that conceive it as an indivisible point. To which I answer, that as soon as I can conceive eternity to be an indivisible point, or anything be an everlasting succession, I will renounce all that I have written on this subject.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Till now, society has protected the adult and blamed the victim. It has been abetted in its blindness by theories, still in keepin...g with the pedagogical principles of our great- grandparents, according to which children are viewed as crafty creatures, dominated by wicked drives, who invent stories and attack their innocent parents or desire them sexually. In reality, children tend to blame themselves for their parents' cruelty and to absolve the parents, whom they invariably love, of all responsibility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »