Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning. All art is concerned with coming into bei...ng ... for art is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being, by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, o...r a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the... memory of the deceased as they see fit, without regard for anyone else's opinion and without the fear of hindering one another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idl...eness at bottom identical.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because... it is stale--identity must always be dull company. The power of other natures over us lies in a stimulating difference which causes excitement and opens communication, in ideas similar to our own but not identical, in states of mind attainable but not actual.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even if someone knew the entire physical history of the world, and every mental event were identical with a physical, it would not... follow that he could predict or explain a single mental event (so described, of course).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's not appropriate to punish children under three, because they really can't evaluate or control their own actions very well.......To be able to follow rules, to discipline herself, a child has to understand not only the rule, but the ideas behind it. She has to be able to recognize similar but not identical situations where the same rule applies. She has to have enough self-control to stop herself from acting on impulses (a separate problem from knowing she shouldn't do something).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whereas the child is chiefly playful and experimental, the adult focuses on specific and conscious experiences. He practices selec...tive inattention to the objects for which he has no immediate use and develops a kind of tunnel vision that helps him to move toward selected goals. This focusing on a limited range of experiences and goals is largely responsible for one's individual evolution and gives a deep and almost tragic significance to a statement made by Albert Camus in his novel La Chute: "Après un certain âge tout homme est responsable do son visage." An almost identical statement appears as the last entry in George Orwell's notebooks: "At 50, everyone has the face he deserves." There could not any more absolute affirmation of belief in personal responsibility for the quality of one's own life and character.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable t...o our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at R...ome, I can be intoxicated with beauty and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »