Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that cri...tical opinion is often orphaned in the present.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I feel no more like a man now than I did in long skirts, unless it be that enjoying more freedom and cutting off the fetters is to... be like a man. I suppose in that respect we are more mannish, for we know that in dress, as in all things else, we have been and are slaves, while man in dress and all things else is free.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if h...e first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Human life consists in mutual service. No grief, pain, misfortune, or "broken heart," is excuse for cutting off one's life while a...ny power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what i...s negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would tr...avel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means the... affirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is ... useful to distinguish between the pornographic, condemned in every society, and the bawdy, the ribald, the shared vulgar...ities and jokes, which are the safety valves of most social systems. Pornography is a most doubtful safety valve. In extreme cases it may feed the perverted imagination of the doomed man who starts by pulling a little girl's braid and ends by cutting off a little girl's head, as each increasing stimulus loses its effectiveness and must be replaced by a more extreme one. This is particularly true of the pornography primarily designed to be brooded over in secret. But is quite otherwise with the music hall jokes, the folk ribaldry at a wedding, the innocent smut of the smoking rooms, where men who are perennially faithful to their wives exchange stories which release explosive laughter. Pornography does not lead to laughter, it leads to deadly serious pursuit of sexual satisfaction divorced from personality and from every other meaning. The uproarious laugh of the group who recognize a common dilemma--the laughter of a group of women at the story of the intractable unborn who refused to budge and merely shivered under the effects of the quart of ice cream hopefully eaten by its poor mother, the laughter of a group of men at the story of the bride who asked to be "frightened" a fourth time--is the laughter of human beings who are making the best of the imperfect social arrangements within which their life here on earth is conducted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting off all ear...thly ties and isolating me as it were.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes; to deny the rights of property is like cutting... off the hands. To refuse political equality is like robbing the ostracized of all self-respect, of credit in the market place, of recompense in the world of work, of a voice in choosing those who make and administer the law, a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »