If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no ...reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has ...not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work: after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late: then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What were habitually his final meditations? Of some one sole unique advertisement to cause passers to stop in wonder, a poster nov...elty, with all extraneous accretions excluded, reduced to its simplest and most efficient terms not exceeding the span of casual vision and congruous with the velocity of modern life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument.... The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do th...ey tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book t...han my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life; not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is the name and the thing; the name is a sound which sets a mark on and denotes the thing. The name is no part of the thing ...nor of the substance; it is an extraneous piece added to the thing, and outside of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as well... as by application. It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In contrast to the flux and muddle of life, art is clarity and enduring presence. In the stream of life, few things are perceived ...clearly because few things stay put. Every mood or emotion is mixed or diluted by contrary and extraneous elements. The clarity of art--the precise evocation of mood in the novel, or of summer twilight in a painting--is like waking to a bright landscape after a long fitful slumber, or the fragrance of chicken soup after a week of head cold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but p...ure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »