The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful. The Greeks engendered the chimera, a ...monster with heads of the lion, the dragon and the goat; the theologians of the second century, the Trinity, in which the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are inextricably tied; the Chinese zoologists, the ti-yiang, a vermilion supernatural bird, endowed with six feet and four wings, but without a face or eyes; the geometers of the nineteenth century, the hypercube, a figure with four dimensions, which encloses an infinite number of cubes and has as its faces eight cubes and twenty-four squares. Hollywood has just enriched this vain museum of horrors: by means of an artistic malignity called dubbing, it proposes monsters that combine the illustrious features of Greta Garbo with the voice of Aldonza Lorenzo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The windy springs and the blazing summers, one after another, had enriched and mellowed that flat tableland; all the human effort ...that had gone into it was coming back in long, sweeping lines of fertility. The changes seemed beautiful and harmonious to me; it was like watching the growth of a great man or of a great idea. I recognized every tree and sandbank and rugged draw. I found that I remembered the conformation of the land as one remembers the modelling of human faces.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Was I not born in this Realm? Were my parents born in any foreign country?... Is not my Kingdom here? Whom have I oppressed? Whom ...have I enriched to other's harm? What turmoil have I made to this Commonwealth that I should be suspected to have no regard of the same?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritual ...creation, and not in augmenting animal existence. Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation; nor unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here was a big constructive imagination; here was a mere doctor laying bare the origins of Greek drama as no classical scholar had... ever done, teaching the anthropologist what was really meant by his totem and taboo, probing the mysteries of sin, of sanctity, of sacrament--a man who, because he understood, purged the human spirit from fear. I have no confidence in psycho-analysis as a method of therapeutics ... but I am equally sure that for generations almost every branch of human knowledge will be enriched and illumined by the imagination of Freud.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man's fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories of ten...der closeness with his own father. A man who has been able to accept tenderness from his father is able later in life to be tender with his own children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Need I add that in the whole New Testament there emerges only a single figure who commands respect? Pilate, the Roman governor. To... take a Jewish affair seriously--he does not persuade himself to do that. One Jew more or less--what does it matter?... The noble scorn of a Roman, confronted with an impudent abuse of the word "truth," has enriched the New Testament with the only saying that has value--one which is its criticism, even its annihilation: "What is truth?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, soon...er or later becomes a sect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »