To "know your place" is a good idea in politics. That is not to say "stay in your place" or "hang on to your place," because ambit...ion or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place--a feel for one's own position in the control room--is useful in gauging what you should try to do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a Restlessness springing from the consciousness of power not fully utilized, which must be present wherever there is unus...ed power of whatever kind. This is the restlessness of the germ within the seed, struggling upward and downward towards its proper life. ... it is a striving full of pain, the cutting of tender flesh by the fetters of the captive as he struggles against their pitilessness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we imagine what it is like to be a languageless creature, we start, naturally, from our own experience, and most of what then... springs to mind has to be adjusted (mainly downward). The sort of consciousness such animals enjoy is dramatically truncated, compared to ours. A bat, for instance, not only can't wonder whether it's Friday; it can't even wonder whether it's a bat; there is no role for wondering to play in its cognitive structure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake ... but absolut...e personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A woman drew her long black hair out tight And fiddled whisper music on those strings... And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings And crawled head downward down a blackened wall....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who renounces ...himself, comes to himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Amidst the downward tendency and proneness of things, when every voice is raised for a new road or another statute or a subscripti...on of stock; for an improvement in dress, or in dentistry; for a new house or a larger business; for a political party, or the division of an estate;Mwill you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To play is nothing but the imitative substitution of a pleasurable, superfluous and voluntary action for a serious, necessary, imp...erative and difficult one. At the cradle of play as well as of artistic activity there stood leisure, tedium entailed by increased spiritual mobility, a horror vacui, the need of letting forms no longer imprisoned move freely, of filling empty time with sequences of notes, empty space with sequences of form.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »