So far we have been going firmly ahead, feeling the firm ground of prejudice glide away beneath our feet which is always rather ex...hilarating, but what next? You will be waiting for the bit where we bog down, the bit where we take it all back, and sure enough that's going to come but it will take time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The tranquility and peace that a scholar needs is something as sweet and exhilarating as love. Unspeakable joys are showered on us... by the exertion of our mental faculties; the quest of ideas, and the tranquil contemplation of knowledge; delights indescribable, because purely intellectual and impalpable to our senses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compar...ed with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones ... run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarati...ng liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to conven...tion, constraint, oppression. Dionysus is energy unbound, mad, callous, destructive, wasteful. Apollo is law, history, tradition, the dignity and safety of custom and form. Dionysus is the new, exhilarating but rude, sweeping all away to begin again. Apollo is a tyrant, Dionysus is a vandal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I was a boy, I had a clock with a pendulum that could be lifted off. I found that the clock went very much faster without the... pendulum. If the main purpose of a clock is to go, the clock was the better for losing its pendulum. True, it could no longer tell the time, but that did not matter if one could teach oneself to be indifferent to the passage of time. The linguistic philosophy which cares only about language and not about the world, is like the boy who preferred the clock without the pendulum because, although it no longer told the time, it went more easily than before and at a more exhilarating pace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The process of becoming an empathetic, autonomous adult--through all the wondrous and exhilarating and challenging, even painful, ...transitions of emotional growth in childhood--is not unlike learning to walk; each step makes you stronger for the next one. But if your parent is doing the walking for you, you do not have the muscles even to support your own emotional weight. You cannot stand alone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »