A child who fears excessive retaliation for even minor offenses will learn very early on that to lie is to protect himself.... If ...your child intuits that you will react very punitively to his wrongdoing, he may be tempted to lie and may become, as time goes on, a habitual liar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Habitual Teetotallers: There should be asylums for such people. But they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they c...ame out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is le...ss revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even people whose lives have been made various by learning, sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of ...life, on their faith in the Invisible--nay, on the sense that their past joys and sorrows are a real experience, when they are suddenly transported to a new land, where by beings around them know nothing of their history, and share none of their ideas--where their mother earth shows another lap, and human life has other forms than those on which their souls have been nourished. Minds that have been unhinged from their old faith and love, have perhaps sought this Lethean influence of exile, in which the past becomes dreamy because its symbols have all vanished, and the present too is dreamy because it is linked with no memories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and char...m of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own fiel...d, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and ... to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »