This is the monstruosity in love, lady--that the will is infinite and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless and the... act a slave to limit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just as truth a...nd falsehood pertain to the reason, the act of which is distinguished essentially by the difference of truth and falsehood (according as we say that an opinion is true or false.) Consequently, good and evil volition are acts differing in species.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the... action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The freedom of indifference, the indifference of freedom, the will dust in the dust of its object, the act a handful of sand let f...all--these were some of the shapes he had sighted, sunset landfall after many days.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint. The act is of h...im who, helpless, unable to act, acts, in the event paints, since he is obliged to paint.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Service ... is love in action, love "made flesh"; service is the body, the incarnation of love. Love is the impetus, service the a...ct, and creativity the result with many by-products.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investm...ent in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in th...e act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. A city composed of paroxysmal places in monumental reliefs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »