Maybe in the '90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the '80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to ...the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civiliz...ation will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world's total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We want some coat woven of elastic steel, stout as the first, and limber as the second. We want a ship in these billows we inhabit.... An angular, dogmatic house would be rent to chips and splinters, in this storm of many elements. No, it must be tight, and fit to the form of man, to live at all; as a shell is the architecture of a house founded on the sea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The expansive nature of truth comes to our succor, elastic, not to be surrounded. Man helps himself by larger generalizations. The... lesson of life is practically to generalize; to believe what the years and the centuries say against the hours; to resist the usurpation of particulars; to penetrate to their catholic sense.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Time is indeed the theatre and seat of illusion: nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century and dw...arfs an age to an hour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with ...them, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Moreover, the universe as a whole is infinite, for whatever is limited has an outermost edge to limit it, and such an edge is defi...ned by something beyond. Since the universe has no edge, it has no limit; and since it lacks a limit, it is infinite and unbounded. Moreover, the universe is infinite both in the number of its atoms and in the extent of its void.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic ...which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors.... He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They talk about a woman's sphere, As though it had a limit.... There's not a place in earth or heaven. There's not a task to mankind given ... Without a woman in it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can nei...ther limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »