Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim--for self-developm...ent, or the discovery of cosmic truths--when all you're really doing is to move from place to place as if devoted primarily to real estate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like i...ts whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A mob is a society of bodies voluntarily bereaving themselves of reason, and traversing its work. The mob is man voluntarily desce...nding to the nature of the beast.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has no ...prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the At...lantic, and herself seems passing to that awful dissolution, whose issue is not given human foresight to scan.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God from the mount of Sinai, whose grey top Shall tremble, he descending, will himself... In thunder lightning and loud trumpets' sound Ordain them laws; part such as appertain To civil justice, part religious rites Of sacrifice, informing them, by types And shadows, of that destined seed to bruise The serpent, by what means he shall achieve Mankind's deliverance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Olympe was the first to enter the circle, generously lifting her dress on each side, as if to signify that she opened her belly, h...er chest to the group. Round, full, she brought to mind a curly-leafed breadfruit, and as soon as she began to dance, she was the breadfruit that a pole has dropped from the tree and that starts to roll down the hill, past paths and roads, descending and ascending from a powerful impulse, to the point of making us forget that the ground beneath her feet was flat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so p...erfectly symbolical of human life,--now climbing the hills, now descending into the vales. From the summits he beholds the heavens and the horizon, from the vales he looks up to the heights again. He is treading his old lessons still, and though he may be very weary and travel-worn, it is yet sincere experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »