For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not f...or the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ant's; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from it... to man, and the little drudge is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The proud person rationalizes his faults, since to acknowledge them would threaten his sense of superiority. The humble person, on... the other hand, readily admits guilt and patiently listens to the reproofs and anger even of his enemies. Our enemies do not seek to protect our self-image with falsehoods and often monitor our behavior more accurately than does many a friend. Therefore, our enemies' admonishments are often of greater value to us in exposing our faults than are the kind and soothing words of a friend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've begun to appreciate the generational patterns that ripple out from our lives like stones dropped in water, pulsing outward ev...en after we are gone. Although we have but one childhood, we relive it first through our children's and then our grandchildren's eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is indeed typical that you Earth people refuse to believe in the superiority of any world but your own. Children looking into a... magnifying glass, imagining the image you see is the image of your true size.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling... race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden ... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the peop...le I'd like to be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you hav...e achieved, indeed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »