Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You... see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It's just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities.... Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is one of those distinctions which is obvious, without being sharp or clear. It is obvious, and remains obvious, to every norma...l mind, although when we come to analyze it, we may not be able to rule a boundary line. It remains obvious, as the distinction between day and night remains obvious, though, when we begin to analyze that distinction, we come up against such refinements as dusk and twilight. There is more than one way of characterizing the difference. Perception is essentially a passive experience, something that happens to us; thinking is an active one, something that we do. Or if you don't like this distinction, because of refinements such as the "intentionality" which some have detected (rightly, I would say) in perception, or on the other hand because of the passivity of that uncontrolled type of thinking called "reverie," then thoughts are something that comes from within; perceptions something that comes from without.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much--and pleases me so much (when my passions are not in...terested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I found my brother's body at the bottom there, where they had thrown it away on the rocks, by the river. Like an old, dirty rag no...body wants. He was dead. And I felt I had killed him. I turned back to give myself up.... Because if a man's life can be lived so long and come out this way, like rubbish, then something was horrible, and had to be ended one way or another. And I decided to help.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things--combinations that may yield new forms... of expression, new inventions, new discoveries, and new solutions....It's exactly what children's play seems to be about and explains why so many people have come to think that children's play is so important a part of childhood--and beyond.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will sa...y--"Come, be my wife!" With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the beautifullest external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the uncleanliest traffic that defiles the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard.... The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able... to obtain the truth adequately, while on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed. Therefore, since the truth seems to be like the proverbial door, which no one can fail to hit, in this way it is easy, but the fact that we can have a whole truth, and not the particular part we aim at shows the difficulty of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we apply the term revolution to what happened in North America between 1776 and 1829, it has a special meaning. Normally, the w...ord describes the process by which man transforms himself from one kind of man, living in one kind of society, with one way of looking at the world, into another kind of man, another society, another conception of life.... The American case is different: it is not a question of the Old Man transforming himself into the New, but of the New Man becoming alive to the fact that he is new, that he has been transformed already without his having realized it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »