Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a wound, t...hey then devour the living flesh, rot the bones, and penetrate to the very marrow. Philosophy at first refutes errors. But if it is not stopped at this point, it goes on to attack truths. And when it is left on its own, it goes so far that it no longer knows where it is and can find no stopping place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience wa...ves its hat or claps its hands. But this natural enthusiasm is turned abruptly into something much less buoyant when it is learnt that this liberty weighs us down immediately with tremendous responsibilities. We now have to take all God's worries on our shoulders--now that we are become "men like gods." It is at this point that the Anxiety and Despondency begin, ending in utter despair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on thei...r minds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My race groaned. It was our people falling. It was another lynching, yet another Black man hanging on a tree. One more woman ambus...hed and raped. A Black boy whipped and maimed. It was hounds on the trail of a man running through slimy swamps.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any cr...iterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mind is a strange and wonderful thing. I'm not sure it'll ever be able to figure itself out. Everything else, maybe, from the ...atom to the universe, everything except itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »