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 »
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through l...uxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. But strong natures, backwoodsmen, New Hampshire giants, Napoleons, Burkes, Broughams, Websters, Kossuths, are inevitable patriots, until their life ebbs, and their defects and gout, palsy and money, warp them.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 »
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 »
Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,... Where youth grows pale, and specter-thin, and dies; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs, Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous-eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond tomorrow.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 »
But physic yet could never reach The maladies thou me dost teach:... Whom first the cramp of hope does tear; And then the palsy shakes of fear; The pestilence of love does heat; Or hatred's hidden ulcer eat; Joy's cheerful madness does perplex, Or sorrow's other madness vex; Which knowledge forces me to know, And memory will not forgo. What but a soul could have the wit To build me up for sin so fit? So architects do square and hew Green trees that in the forest grew.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »