Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten ...to to the core.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all... other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, ...excessive ... and impoverished.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fe...ar, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear ... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All cultural products contain a mixture of two elements: conventions and inventions. Conventions are elements which are known to b...oth the creator and his audience beforehand--they consist of things like favorite plots, stereotyped characters, accepted ideas, commonly known metaphors and other linguistic devices, etc. Inventions, on the other hand, are elements which are uniquely imagined by the creator, such as new kinds of characters, ideas, or linguistic forms.... Convention and invention have quite different cultural functions. Conventions represent familiar shared images and meanings and they assert an ongoing continuity of values; inventions confront us with a new perception of meaning which we have not realized before. Both these functions are important to culture. Conventions help maintain a culture's stability while inventions help it respond to changing circumstances and provide new information about the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Often low-income parents give their children every other thing they need for successful participation in school and the world of w...ork except the planning and organizing skills and habit patterns needed to operate in complex settings. Many intelligent and able college students from low-income backgrounds confront these deficits when faced with a heavy assignment load. . . . These patterns are best acquired at an early age and need to be quite well developed by late elementary school or twelve or thirteen years of age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficul...t to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can b...elieve there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety... of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »