Man is never without woman, the neuter sex Casting up her equations, looks to her lord for loving kindness... For man smiles never at woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann... Georg Hamann. His influence, direct and indirect, upon the romantic revolt against universalism and scientific method ... was considerable and perhaps crucial.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Miss. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) ar...e the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master.... If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We should be careful never to imagine, that the wedding-day is the burial of love, but that in reality love then begins its best l...ife; and if we set out upon that principle, and are mindful to keep it up, and give due attention and aid to the progress of love thus brought into the well ordered well sheltered garden, we may enjoy I believe as much happiness as is consistent with the imperfection of our present state of being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the unive...rse would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The consistent anarchist ... should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and sp...ecialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat.... Some sort of council communism is the natural form of revolutionary socialism in an industrial society. It reflects the intuitive understanding that democracy is largely a sham when the industrial system is controlled by any form of autocratic elite, whether of owners, managers, and technocrats, a "vanguard" party, or a State bureaucracy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read...: to save their souls.... Consistent with this goal, the first book written and printed for children in America was titled Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes in either England, drawn from the Breasts of both Testaments for their Souls' Nourishment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The methodological advice to interpret in a way that optimizes agreement should not be conceived as resting on a charitable assump...tion about human intelligence that might turn out to be false. If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »