We possess the Canon because we are mortal and also rather belated. There is only so much time, and time must have a stop, while t...here is more to read than there ever was before. From the Yahwist and Homer to Freud, Kafka, and Beckett is a journey of nearly three millennia. Since that voyage goes past harbors as infinite as Dante, Chaucer, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy, all of whom amply compensate a lifetime's rereadings, we are in the pragmatic dilemma of excluding something else each time we read or reread extensively.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethe...real element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, but... a sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hard times accounted in large part for the fact that the exposition was a financial disappointment in its first year, but Sally Ra...nd and her fan dancers accomplished what applied science had failed to do, and the exposition closed in 1934 with a net profit, which was donated to participating cultural institutions, excluding Sally Rand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I became President I was fully convinced that whatever might be true in Europe and of Europeans, in our climate and with the ...excitable temperaments of the Americans, the habitual use of intoxicating drinks was not safe. I regarded the danger of the habit as especially great in political and official life. It seemed to me that the example of excluding liquors from the White House would be wise and useful, and would be approved by good people generally.... I was not a total abstainer when I became President.... During the greater part of my term and at least for the last three years, I have been in practice and in theory a consistent total-abstinence man, and I shall continue to be so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that fai...th is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely res...pond in the liturgy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excludi...ng them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Scepticism is true; for after all, men before Jesus Christ did not know where they were, nor whether they were great or small. And... those who have said the one or the other, knew nothing about it, and guessed without reason and by chance. They also erred always in excluding the one or the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »