Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better than... the metaphysics of the Stone Age, namely, as was said, the inherited experience and acumen of many generations of men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here [in London, history] ... seemed the very fabric of things, as if the city were a single growth of stone and brick, uncounted ...strata of message and meaning, age upon age, generated over the centuries to the dictates of some now all-but-unreadable DNA of commerce and empire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of... violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is... no parent left to tell them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired, not by his friends or his towns-people or his contemporaries, but by a...ll men, and which is to be more beautiful to the eye in proportion to its culture, must disindividualize himself, and be a man of no party and no manner and no age, but one through whom the soul of all men circulates as the common air through his lungs. He must work in the spirit in which we conceive a prophet to speak, or an angel of the Lord to act; that is, he is not to speak his own words, or do his own works, or think his own thoughts, but he is to be an organ through which the universal mind acts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipote...nce to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone! Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks! Moloch whose poverty is the specter o...f genius! Moloch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen! Moloch whose name is the Mind!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You sang far better than you knew; the songs That for your listeners' hungry hearts sufficed... Still live,--but more than this to you belongs: You sang a race from wood and stone to Christ.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Germany is a queer country: one can't regard it dispassionately. I alternate between hating it thoroughly, stick, stock and stone,... and yearning over it fit to break my heart. I can't help feeling it a young and adorable country--adolescent--with the faults of adolescence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. Th...ey no longer give life. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. These in their massive manner of steel and stone say, Come unto me all ye who labour, and we will give you work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »