The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for th...eir reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more g...eneral opinions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no ...reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made ...by the reception of beautiful sentiments.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We ought to celebrate this hour by expressions of manly joy. Not thanks, not prayer seem quite the highest or truest name for our ...communication with the infinite,--but glad and conspiring reception,--reception that becomes giving in its turn, as the receiver is only the All-Giver in part and infancy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Films are seen in large, silent, darkened theaters, where intense light beams are projected from behind toward luminous surfaces i...n front. There is an enforced and anonymous collectivity of the audience because, for any screening, all viewers are physically present at the same time in the relatively enclosed space of the theater. In contrast to this cocoon-like, enveloping situation is the fragmentary, dispersed, and varied nature of television reception. The darkness is dissolved, the anonymity removed.... While the aura of cinema spectatorship produces hypnotic fascination, the atmosphere of television enables just the opposite--because the lights are more likely to be on, one can get up and return, do several things at once, watch casually, talk to other people, or even decide to turn the television off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved... hand in mine, and said, "I hear you spoke here tonight." "Oh, it was nothing," I replied modestly. "Yes," the little old lady nodded, "that's what I heard."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love aw...ay and there is no longer art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »