The preacher then went on to criticise the attitude of religion towards science. "If there is still a feeling of hostility between... them ... it is no longer the fault of religion. There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is so no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum till the last atom of matter is reached; reflect and refine till the last element of thought is made clear; the church now knows with the certainty of science what she once knew only by the certainty of faith, that you will find enthroned behind all thought and matter only one central idea,--that idea which the church has never ceased to embody,--I AM!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a young artist called Saint Who swallowed some samples of paint.... All shades of the spectrum Flowed out of his rectum With a colorful lack of restraint.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
White lies are at the other end of the spectrum of deception from lies in a serious crisis. They are the most common and the most ...trivial forms that duplicity can take. The fact that they are so common provides their protective coloring. And their very triviality, when compared to more threatening lies, makes it seem unnecessary or even absurd to condemn them. Some consider all well-intentioned lies, however momentous, to be white; I shall adhere to the narrower usage: a white lie, in this sense, is a falsehood not meant to injure anyone, and of little moral import.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemical... energy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for... the overflow of emotion; both are "luxury reflexes" without apparent utility. This much they have in common; in every other respect they are direct opposites.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The range of comedy is more embracing than the range of tragedy; and if tragedy occurs at some middle point in ethical life where ...failure is weighed against man's nobility of spirit, comedy ventures out into the farther extremes of experience in both directions, toward the bestial or "obscene," and at the other end of the spectrum toward the insane heroics of Nietzsche or the vision of Prospero, who sees sin as the last mistake of all our many mistakes, dispelled before our clearer reason whenever hate seems more absurd than charity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had kept opaque Down deeper than the canyons undersea... The sullen spectrum of a buried lake Nobody saw; not seen even by me....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »