"If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to fin...d out how we can get hold of the truth at all."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him per...sonally and become his chief of staff.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It has been the struggle between privileged men who have managed to get hold of the levers of power and the people in general with... their vague and changing aspirations for equality, for justice, for some kind of gentler brotherhood and peace, which has kept that balance of forces we call our system of government in equilibrium.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 »
What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction, ...but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Happy are those who find wisdom, and those who get understanding, for her income is better than silver, and her revenue better tha...n gold. She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called happy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too mu...ch left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you've ever been without money, or food, something very strange happens when you get a bit of money, a kind of madness. You don...'t care. You can't remember that you had no money before, that the money will be gone. You can remember nothing but that there is the money for which you have been suffering. Now here it is. A lust takes hold of you. You see food in the windows. In imagination you eat hugely; you taste a thousand meals. You look in windows. Colors are brighter; you buy something to dress up in. An excitement takes hold of you. You know it is suicide but you can't help it. You must have food, dainty, splendid food and a bright hat so once again you feel blithe, rid of that ratty gnawing shame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hard-hearted girl, get rid of these doubts... based on false rumor. It's not good to subject me to sorrow because of backbiters' words, or have you decided now, silly girl, that it's all true? Do to me what you will, sweetheart. Suit yourself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Americans are violently oral.... That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all--isn'...t respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »