That food nourishes, sleep refreshes, and fire warms us; that to sow in the seed-time is the way to reap in the harvest, and, in g...eneral, that to obtain such or such ends, such or such means are conducive, all this we know, not by discovering any necessary connexion between our ideas, but only by the observation of the settled laws of nature, without which we should be all in uncertainty and confusion, and a grown man no more know how to manage himself in the affairs of life than an infant just born.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
English literature is a kind of training in social ethics.... English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is ...conducive to action.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which ba...nishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity--a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bol...d navigation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, ...unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What a vast advantage has a speech over a written composition. Men are imposed upon by voice and gesture, and by all that is condu...cive to enhance the performance. Any little prepossession in favor of the speaker raises their admiration, and then they do their best to comprehend him; they commend his performance before he has begun, but they soon fall off asleep, doze all the time he is preaching, and only wake to applaud him. An author has no such passionate admirers; his works are read at leisure in the country or in the solitude of the study; no public meetings are held to applaud him.... However excellent his book may be, it is read with the intention of finding it but middling; it is perused, discussed, and compared to other works; a book is not composed of transient sounds lost in the air and forgotten; what is printed remains.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your favor containing the question, as to whether I consider myself a "new woman" is before me. As a rule I do not consider myself... at all. I am, and always have been a progressive woman, and while never directly attacking the conventionalities of society, have always done, or attempted to do those things which I have considered conducive to my health, convenience or emolument ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What then is the relation of law to morality? Law cannot prescribe morality, it can prescribe only external actions and therefore ...it should prescribe only those actions whose mere fulfillment, from whatever motive, the state adjudges to be conducive to welfare. What actions are these? Obviously such actions as promote the physical and social conditions requisite for the expression and development of free--or moral--personality.... Law does not and cannot cover all the ground of morality. To turn all moral obligations into legal obligations would be to destroy morality. Happily it is impossible. No code of law can envisage the myriad changing situations that determine moral obligations. Moreover, there must be one legal code for all, but moral codes vary as much as the individual characters of which they are the expression. To legislate against the moral codes of one's fellows is a very grave act, requiring for its justification the most indubitable and universally admitted of social gains, for it is to steal their moral codes, to suppress their characters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My feelings about my work are, on the whole, not unfriendly. Boundless modesty and what people call "humility" are virtues scarcel...y conducive to one's complacently dwelling upon one's own work--particularly when one lacks them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »