This we know: the earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood wh...ich unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life: he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hebraism contains no eternal realm of essence, which Greek philosophy was to fabricate, through Plato, as affording the intellectu...al deliverance from the evil of time. Such a realm of eternal essences is possible only for a detached intellect, one who, in Plato's phrase, becomes a "spectator of all time and all existence." This ideal of the philosopher as the highest human type--the theoretical intellect who from the vantage point of eternity can survey all time and existence--is altogether foreign to the Hebraic concept of the man of faith who is passionately committed to his own mortal being. Detachment was for the Hebrew an impermissible state of mind, a vice rather than a virtue; or rather it was something that Biblical man was not yet even able to conceive, since he had not reached the level of rational abstraction of the Greek. His existence was too earth-bound, too laden with oppressive images of mortality, to permit him to experience the philosopher's detachment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Napoleon renounced, once for all, sentiments and affections, and would help himself with his hands and his head. With him is no mi...racle, and no magic. He is a worker in brass, in iron, in wood, in earth, in roads, in buildings, in money, and in troops, and a very consistent and wise master-workman. He is never weak and literary, but acts with the solidity and the precision of natural agents. He has not lost his native sense and sympathy with things. Men give way before such a man, as before natural events.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of m...y ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you feed a thousand people you are a nice man with suspicious motives. If you kill a thousand you are a hero. Continue to get t...hem killed by the thousands and you are a great conqueror than which nothing on earth is greater. Oppress them and you are a great ruler. Rob them by law and they are proud and happy if you let them glimpse you occasionally surrounded by the riches that you have trampled out of their hides. You are truly divine if you meet their weakness with the sword to slay and the dogs to tear. The only time you run great risk is when you serve them. The most repulsive thing to all men is gratitude. Men give up property, freedom and even life before they will have the obligation laid on them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, a...nd of love, renders the fulfilment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For Man is God and man is eating the earth up... like a candy bar and not one of them can be left alone with the ocean for it is known he will gulp it all down.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied,... But ever restless and irregular, About this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, That he has quite forgot how to go there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.... O that that earth which kept the world in awe Should patch a wall t'expel the winter's flaw!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »