If we study nature attentively, alike in its great revolutions and in its minutest works, it is impossible not to admit enchantmen...t--giving the word its fullest meaning. Man can create no force; he can but use the only existing force, which includes all others, namely, Motion--the incomprehensible Breath of the sovereign maker of the universe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In mind, she was of a strong and vigorous turn, having from her earliest youth devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study o...f the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The orthodox school has witnessed for centuries that nature itself has never once cured any existing disease with another dissimil...ar one, however intense. What must we think of this school, which nevertheless has continued to treat chronic diseases allopathically, with medicines and formulas that can only cause a disease condition--God knows which--dissimilar to the one being treated? Even if these physicians have not hitherto observed nature attentively enough, the miserable results of their treatment should have taught them that they were on the wrong road.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You cannot tell a man that he is a lowbrow any more than you can tell a woman that her clothes are in bad taste, but a highbrow do...es not mind being called a highbrow. He has worked hard, read widely, traveled far, and listened attentively in order to satisfy his curiosity and establish his squatters' rights in this little corner of intellectualism, and he does not care who knows it. And this is true of both kinds of highbrow--the militant, or crusader, type and the passive, or dilettante type. These types in general live happily together; the militant highbrow carries the torch of culture, the passive highbrow reads by its light.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of ...it I cannot without getting rid of myself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the moment we try to fix our attention upon consciousness and to see what, distinctly, it is, it seems to vanish: it seems as ...if we had before us a mere emptiness. When we try to introspect the sensation of blue, all we can see is the blue; the other element is as if it were diaphanous. Yet it can be distinguished if we look attentively enough, and know that there is something to look for.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I narrowly watched his motions, and listened attentively to his observations, for we had employed an Indian mainly that I might ha...ve an opportunity to study his ways.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »