There has never been in history another such culture as the Western civilization M a culture which has practiced the belief that t...he physical and social environment of man is subject to rational manipulation and that history is subject to the will and action of man; whereas central to the traditional cultures of the rivals of Western civilization, those of Africa and Asia, is a belief that it is environment that dominates man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I often think about the opening words of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of ti...mes." I know Dickens wasn't talking about one- to three- year-olds, but his words do capture the extremes of emotion that toddlers and their parents experience every day. Can there be a creature on earth as adorable--and as trying--as a toddler?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You should try to understand every thing you see and hear; to act and judge for yourselves; to remember you each have a soul of yo...ur own to account for; M a mind of your own to improve. When you once get these ideas fixed, and learn to act upon them, no man or set of men, no laws, customs, or combinations of them can seriously oppress you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He for our saik that sufferit to be slane, And lyk a lamb in sacrifice wes dicht,... Is lyk a lyone rissin up agane, And as gyane raxit him on hicht; Sprungin is Aurora radius and bricht, On loft is gone the glorius Appollo, The blisfull day depairtit fro the nycht: Surrexit Dominus de sepulchro.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the e...ffect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ye ugly, creepin, blastit wonner, Detested, shunn'd by saunt an' sinner,... How dare ye set your fit upon her, Sae fine a lady!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us!... It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n Devotion!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »