Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman "other" or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is ...no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace without... grandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hope I may claim in the present work to have made it probable that the laws of arithmetic are analytic judgments and consequentl...y a priori. Arithmetic thus becomes simply a development of logic, and every proposition of arithmetic a law of logic, albeit a derivative one. To apply arithmetic in the physical sciences is to bring logic to bear on observed facts; calculation becomes deduction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get t...here. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we say "science" we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can ...mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The image cannot be dispossessed of a primordial freshness, which idea can never claim. An idea is derivative and tamed. The image... is in the natural or wild state, and it has to be discovered there, not put there, obeying its own law and none of ours. We think we can lay hold of image and take it captive, but the docile captive is not the real image but only the idea, which is the image with its character beaten out of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poor John Field!--I trust he does not read this, unless he will improve by it,--thinking to live by some derivative old-country mo...de in this primitive new country.... With his horizon all his own, yet he a poor man, born to be poor, with his inherited Irish poverty or poor life, his Adam's grandmother and boggy ways, not to rise in this world, he nor his posterity, till their wading webbed bog-trotting feet get talaria to their heels.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »