During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything. The bare fact of e...xistence paralyzes me... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe--like an infant on its back in a cot. It is impossible to be interested in anything in particular while overhead the sun shines or underneath my feet grows a single blade of grass.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toning ...down the sensitiveness of the feelings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din:... Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn.
'Tis here with boundless pow'r I reign; And ev'ry health which I begin Converts dull port to bright champagne; Such Freedom crowns it, at an inn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...he sent letters to all the royal provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, declar...ing that every man should be master in his own house.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil; for who can govern... this your great people?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »