The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able... to obtain the truth adequately, while on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed. Therefore, since the truth seems to be like the proverbial door, which no one can fail to hit, in this way it is easy, but the fact that we can have a whole truth, and not the particular part we aim at shows the difficulty of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well for any great class and descri...ption of men in society to be able to say for itself what it wants, and not to have other classes, the so-called educated and intelligent classes, acting for it as its proctors, and supposed to understand its wants and to provide for them.... A class of men may often itself not either fully understand its wants, or adequately express them; but it has a nearer interest and a more sure diligence in the matter than any of its proctors, and therefore a better chance of success.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the vice president thinks it's disgraceful for an unmarried woman to bear a child, and if he believes that a woman cannot adequ...ately raise a child without a father, then he'd better make sure that abortion remains safe and legal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sustained unemployment not only denies parents the opportunity to meet the food, clothing, and shelter needs of their children but... also denies them the sense of adequacy, belonging, and worth which being able to do so provides. This increases the likelihood of family problems and decreases the chances of many children to be adequately prepared for school.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is ...entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it; and of him who can adequately place it. A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but, as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support...--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or the community--are more likely to be overburdened by the demands of their babies and to be unable to respond to them adequately. Parents who experience severe poverty or economic insecurity, who cannot satisfy their own basic needs, are likely to have difficulty in responding to their children's needs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sex can be defined fairly adequately in physiological terms as consisting of the building up of bodily tensions and their release.... Eros, in contrast, is the experiencing of the personal intentions and meaning of the act. Whereas sex is a rhythm of stimulus and response, eros is a state of being. The pleasure of sex is described by Freud and others as the reduction of tension; in eros, on the contrary, we wish not to be released from the excitement but rather to hang on to it, to bask in it, and even to increase it. The end toward which sex points is gratification and relaxation, whereas eros is a desiring, longing, a forever reaching out, seeking to expand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not on...ly of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Traditionally Southern statesmen have been orators. A society emphasizing social rituals and manners requires a kind of reverence ...for words to adequately express sentiment and feeling. The dregs of this rhetoric remain the stock in trade of the grass roots politicians. The Southerner generally does not shy away--to the extent the Northerner does--from a use of language that is something more than bare statement. The Northerner, with his conditioned respect for practicality and getting-to-the-point is more likely to possess a far greater reading than speaking vocabulary and to associate anything more than simple expression with ostentation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useles...s in proportion to its abstractness. To define beauty not in the most abstract, but in the most concrete terms possible, not to find a universal formula for it, but the formula which expresses most adequately this or that special manifestation of it, is the aim of the true student of aesthetics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »