The working-class ... is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, a...nd is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The doctrine of those who have denied that certainty could be attained at all, has some agreement with my way of proceeding at the... first setting out; but they end in being infinitely separated and opposed. For the holders of that doctrine assert simply that nothing can be known; I also assert that not much can be known in nature by the way which is now in use. But then they go on to destroy the authority of the senses and understanding; whereas I proceed to devise helps for the same.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And Reason kens he herits in A haunted house. Tenants unknown... Assert their squalid lease of sin With earlier title than his own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality... all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that soci...ety is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Father Latour judged that, just as it was the white man's way to assert himself in any landscape, to change it, make it over a lit...tle (at least to leave some mark of memorial of his sojourn), it was the Indian's way to pass through a country without disturbing anything; to pass and leave no trace, like fish through the water, or birds through the air. It was the Indian manner to vanish into the landscape, not to stand out against it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All cultural products contain a mixture of two elements: conventions and inventions. Conventions are elements which are known to b...oth the creator and his audience beforehand--they consist of things like favorite plots, stereotyped characters, accepted ideas, commonly known metaphors and other linguistic devices, etc. Inventions, on the other hand, are elements which are uniquely imagined by the creator, such as new kinds of characters, ideas, or linguistic forms.... Convention and invention have quite different cultural functions. Conventions represent familiar shared images and meanings and they assert an ongoing continuity of values; inventions confront us with a new perception of meaning which we have not realized before. Both these functions are important to culture. Conventions help maintain a culture's stability while inventions help it respond to changing circumstances and provide new information about the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and s...o, perhaps, it would, if they had it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The self ... might be regarded as a sort of citadel of the mind, fortified without and containing selected treasures within, while... love is an undivided share in the rest of the universe. In a healthy mind each contributes to the growth of the other: what we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of ourself. On the other hand, it is only on the basis of a substantial self that a person is capable of progressive sympathy or love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »