I see not much difference between ourselves & the Turks, save that we have foreskins and they none, that they have long dresses an...d we short, and that we talk much and they little. In England the vices in fashion are whoring & drinking, in Turkey, sodomy and smoking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by tha...t wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most of us have felt barriers between ourselves and our fathers and had thought that going it alone was part of what it meant to b...e a man. We tried to get close to our children when we became fathers, and yet the business of practicing masculinity kept getting in the way. We men have begun to talk about that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate b...etween God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, griefs, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations--all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We accept and welcome ... as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment; the concentration... of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has ...been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great practical difference between the word, written or spoken, and the visual image is that we cannot read the former unless ...we have been initiated into the mystery of language, whereas visual images can be made intelligible to all men who have eyes.... The spiritual difference between the written word and the visual image is equally great. Precise though a word is, evocative though it be, the actual machinery of visual perception is not engaged. All that takes place, takes place now within the mind; the retina and the neurons sleep; we are in a world which has been created by old, long-stored stimuli; the accidents of energy exterior to ourselves have been totally excluded from it. Even the spoken word is further from this spiritual purity than the word upon the page, for sounds have at least a sensual immediacy of a sort, but the written word is only the ghost of a sound. We have entered now into a realm not of images but of substitutes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For good teaching rests neither in accumulating a shelfful of knowledge nor in developing a repertoire of skills. In the end, good... teaching lies in a willingness to attend and care for what happens in our students, ourselves, and the space between us. Good teaching is a certain kind of stance, I think. It is a stance of receptivity, of attunement, of listening.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to r...eason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »