The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as th...ough plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Their name liveth for ever," the Gateway claims. Was ever an immolation so belied... As these intolerably nameless names? Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which know...ledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowl...edge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and havin...g engaged in it more fully than any other people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantm...ent, in order to perpetuate it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cos...t.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »