The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--...Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Consciousness is cerebral celebrity--nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize r...esources long enough to achieve certain typical and "symptomatic" effects--on memory, on the control of behavior and so forth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or termi...nal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of the brain... that is concerned with words and numbers. We enhance the logical, bounded, linear functions of the mind. In the East, exercises of this sort are for the purpose of getting in tune with the unconscious--to get rid of boundaries, not to create them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority ... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors ...we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our "white mythology." Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Give me the resurrection of the body!" said Dukes. "But it'll come in time, when we've shoved the cerebral stone away a bit, the ...money and the rest. Then we'll get a democracy of touch, instead of a democracy of pocket."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And if the stage-dark head rehearse The fifth act of the closing night,... Why, cut it off, piece after piece, And throw the tough cortex away....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »