Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true ...in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is it true or false that Belfast is north of London? That the galaxy is the shape of a fried egg? That Beethoven was a drunkard? T...hat Wellington won the battle of Waterloo? There are various degrees and dimensions of success in making statements: the statements fit the facts always more or less loosely, in different ways on different occasions for different intents and purposes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I live for those who love me, Whose hearts are kind and true;... For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my spirit too; For all human ties that bind me, For the task by God assigned me, For the bright hopes yet to find me, And the good that I can do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity ...that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And I shall find some girl perhaps, And a better one than you,... With eyes as wise, but kindlier, And lips as soft, but true, And I daresay she will do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The acceptance of a theory as true does involve a personal choice in a way that a law does not. Different people do differ about t...heories; they can choose whether or no they will believe them; but people do not differ about laws; there is no personal choice; universal agreement can be forced. Again, if we look at the history of science, we shall find that the great advances in theory are more closely connected with the names of the great men than are the advances in law. Every important theory is associated with some man whose scientific work was notable apart from that theory; either he invented other important theories or in some way he did scientific work greatly above the average. On the other hand there are a good many well-known laws which are associated with the names of men who, apart from those particular laws, are practically unknown; they discovered one important law, but they have no claim to rank among the geniuses of science. That fact seems to indicate that a greater degree of genius is needed to invent true theories than to discover true laws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nation...s. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many children grow through adolescence with no ripples whatever and land smoothly and predictably in the adult world with both fee...t on the ground. Some who have stumbled and bumbled through childhood suddenly burst into bloom. Most shake, steady themselves, zigzag, fight, retreat, pick up, take new bearings, and finally find their own true balance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »