What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at r...est, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I never understood exactly why people get engaged--The only time I ever did the most disastrous things happened--but I feel that t...here's a great deal to be said for immediate matrimony always. If I once got started I'd probably have to become a mormon to cover my confusion. What I mean is that if he and she are crazy about each other it is sheer tempting God to stay apart, come what may. And if people arent crazy about each other being engaged wont help them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Furthermore it becomes folly to seek a boundary between synthetic statements, which hold contingently on experience, and analytic ...statements, which hold come what may. Any statement can be held true come what may, if we make drastic enough adjustments elsewhere in the system. Even a statement very close to the periphery can be held true in the face of recalcitrant experience by pleading hallucination or by amending certain statements of the kind called logical laws. Conversely, by the same token, no statement is immune to revision. Revision even of the logical law of the excluded middle has been proposed as a means of simplifying quantum mechanics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to creat...e where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an eye to w...hat may succeed, certainly are more liable to disappointment, misfortune and unhappiness, than those who give up their fate to chance and take the goods and evils of fortune as they come, without making happiness their study, or misery their foresight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of ...respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a sound justification for most scientific activity is going to be found, it will eventually come perhaps from a recognition tha...t man's sense of curiosity about the world and himself is every bit as compelling as his need for clothing and food.... Making sense of the world and one's place in that world has roots deep within the human psyche.... We can drop the dangerous pretense that science is legitimate only in so far as it contributes to our material well-being or to our store of perennial truths. Viewed in this light, the repudiation of theoretical scientific inquiry is tantamount to a denial of what may be our most characteristically human trait.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have come to the conclusion that the closer people are to what may be called the front lines of government ... the easier it is ...to see the immediate underbrush, the individual tree trunks of the moment, and to forget the nobility the usefulness and the wide extent of the forest itself.... They forget that politics after all is only an instrument through which to achieve Government.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How can they know Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone,... And there alone, that have no solitude? So the crowd come they care not what may come. They have loud music, hope every day renewed And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »