I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can b...ring to bear on the same topic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossib...le to perform the simplest act when the gods say "no." I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hope I may claim in the present work to have made it probable that the laws of arithmetic are analytic judgments and consequentl...y a priori. Arithmetic thus becomes simply a development of logic, and every proposition of arithmetic a law of logic, albeit a derivative one. To apply arithmetic in the physical sciences is to bring logic to bear on observed facts; calculation becomes deduction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some bring a capon, some a rural cake, Some nuts, some apples; some that think they make... The better cheeses bring 'em, or else send By their ripe daughters, whom they would commend This way to husbands, and whose baskets bear An emblem of themselves in plum or pear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and more understanding than women, who have but small and narrow breasts, ...and broad hips, to the end they should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpasses... any possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It may be that a second wave of the sexual revolution might at last accomplish its aim of freeing half the race from its immemoria...l subordination--and in the process bring us all a great deal closer to humanity. It may be that we shall even be able to retire sex from the harsh realities of politics, but not until we have created a world we can bear out of the desert we inhabit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on... with such persistent, irritating monotony, to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Objects are concealed from our view, not so much because they are out of the course of our visual ray as because we do not bring o...ur minds and eyes to bear on them.... We do not realize how far and widely, or how near and narrowly, we are to look. The greater part of the phenomena of Nature are for this reason concealed from us all our lives. The gardener sees only the gardener's garden. Here, too, as in political economy, the supply answers to the demand. Nature does not cast pearls before swine. There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate,--not a grain more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The young ... look into visages dull-eyed, long-toothed, wattle-necked, and chop-fallen, something they have never been and which ...they cannot imagine ever being.... If it occurs to a young person, looking at us, that this is the direction in which he himself travels, how can he forgive, let alone bear the sight of, us, who constantly bring him the bad news of our own faces, bitter signposts pointing to his own destination?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »