Neither the historian nor the cartographer can ever reproduce the reality they are trying to communicate to the reader of books or... maps; they can but give a plan, a series of indications, of this reality. There are contrasting schemes for choosing from enormous numbers of geographic details. You may have a map in which every feature that can be named, every hill, brook, crossroads, is crowded in; or you may have a map in which many details are omitted in the effort to show the reader the lay of the land, the shape of the mountain systems, the relations of drainage, relief, communications, and so on. Both kinds are useful, depending on the needs of the user.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something e...lse. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident; wit is the product of art and fancy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The leadership qualities of Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower deserve special scrutiny because their common and contrasting... qualities illumine the nature of "charismatic" leadership in the Presidency. James M Burns, by calling his study of Roosevelt The Lion and the Fox, placed him in the tradition of Machiavellian strategy, and there is little question that Roosevelt used imaginative daring and pugnacity along with the cunning maneuver. Both qualities led him deep into party politics, where he fought the unfaithful ... and smote the heathen without. Eisenhower had less both of the lion and the fox; he was not savage in attack, but usually soft-spoken; and he affected the style of staying outside political involvement and keeping above the party battles.... He understood the deep American impulse toward the belittling of politics, and by seeming to avoid partisanship he could win more converts to his cause than the most partisan leader.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But I must needs take my petulance, contrasting it with my accustomed morning hopefulness, as a sign of the ageing of appetite, of... a decay in the very capacity of enjoyment. We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal which may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine- work which is so large a part of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To Freud, the unconscious was primarily regressive; when Jung challenged this view, it seemed to Freud that Jung was in flight fro...m accepting the concept of the unconscious at all. But it could just as well be said that Jung simply had a different conception of the unconscious; Jung had more appreciation of the creative potentials of the unconscious, and saw in the unknown at least as much of life forces as of death forces. The difference in Freud's and Jung's views of the unconscious is reflected in their contrasting attitudes toward fantasy. Freud had felt that he could "lay it down that a happy person never phantasizes, only an unsatisfied one." Jung, on the other hand, wrote: "I have no small opinion of fantasy. To me, it is the maternally creative side of the masculine man ... As Schiller says, man is completely human only when he is at play."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Two destitute lives. Two sickly bachelors, chaste though without vows, deprived of all daily affection, suffering all the torments... of poetic passion, but for the Idea--adventurers of the mind only. Two existences virtually devoid of external vicissitudes. For one, the breaking-off of an engagement, the final attack against the Church, and death at forty-two. For the other, still less: a few years' professorship, a long wandering solitude, madness at forty-four. Each produced in some fifteen years his difficult, seminal work, and attracted only in extremis, by scandal, the attention of a few contemporaries. This external nakedness, contrasting with so much inner pathos, renders these lives exemplary; two pure tensions. In them the action of the mythic powers perfectly reveals its slow movements of approach, of alternating emergence and eclipse. These two chaste men meditated much on love, on women, and on marriage. Nietzsche has certainly written less on these subjects than Kierkegaard, but his work is no less rich in brief, often brazenly contradictory judgments on these three themes. It is remarkable that Nietzsche's contradictions afford a faithful epitome of Kierkegaard's, which in their turn repeat those of St. Paul himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume always... a crisis near at hand, but she is forever silent and unpretending.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and ki...ll each other cell by cell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check;... Richer than doing nothing for a bauble; Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,... . . . This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »