It is because everything is relative That we shall never see in that sphere of pure wisdom and... Entertainment much more than groping shadows of an incomplete Former existence so close it burns like the mouth that Closes down over all your effort like the moment Of deathLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If psychoanalysis emerged just before World War I to deal with the repressions of Puritanism, the hedonistic age has its counterpa...rt in sensitivity training, encounter groups, "joy therapy," and similar techniques that have two characteristics essentially derived from a hedonistic mood: they are conducted almost exclusively in groups; and they try to "unblock" the individual by physical contact, by groping, touching, fondling, manipulating. Where the earlier intention of psychoanalysis was to enable the patient to achieve self-insight and thereby redirect his life--an aim inseparable from a moral context--the newer therapies are entirely instrumental and psychologistic; their aim is to "free" the person from inhibitions and restraints so that he or she can more easily express his impulses and feelings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expect...ancy was forty-six; now it was nearly eighty. Our groping sense that we couldn't live all those years in terms of motherhood alone was "the problem that had no name." Realizing that it was not some freakish personal fault but our common problem as women had enabled us to take the first steps to change our lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements, and doubts. We tend to for...get the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end result of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The prehuman creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind....... Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In these great times which I knew when they were this small; which will become small again, provided they have time left for it ...... in these times in which things are happening that could not be imagined and in which what can no longer be imagined must happen, for if one could imagine it, it would not happen; in these serious times which have died laughing at the thought that they might become serious; which, surprised by their own tragedy, are reaching for diversion and, catching themselves redhanded, are groping for words ... in these times you should not expect any words of my own from me--none but these words which barely manage to prevent silence from being misinterpreted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
and a man climbing must scrape his knees, and bring... the grip of his hands into play. The cut stone consoles his groping feet. Wings brush past him. The poem ascends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Were that enough, bone, blood, and sinew, The twisted brain, the fair-formed loin,... Groping for matter under the dog's plate, Man should be cured of distemper. For all there is to give I offer: Crumbs, barn, and halter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »