I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a muse...um and put them on display.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas ...to fashion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general h...abit of skimming.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion--these are the most valuable coin of the t...hinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together i...n the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won't go away hungry, but it's not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For he could coin, or counterfeit New words, with little or no wit;... Words so debas'd and hard, no stone Was hard enough to touch them on; And when with hasty noise he spoke 'em; The ignorant for current took 'em;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Constancy ... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such conterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expre...ssion of the basic experience, but is constructed only on a very high level.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep: it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; 'tis mea...t for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. 'Tis the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise-man even. There is only one thing ... that I dislike in sleep; 'tis that it resembles death; there's very little difference between a man in his first sleep, and a man in his last sleep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »