Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession.... Since movement always proceeds fro...m something immovable, and ends in something at rest, hence it is that human reasoning, in the order of inquiry and discovery, proceeds from certain things absolutely understood--namely, the first principles; and, again, in the order of judgment, returns by analysis to first principles, in the light of which it examines what it has found. Now it is clear that rest and movement are not to be referred to different powers, but to one and the same.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage of ...society; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materials ...which they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grand ...and immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True genius... will not impoverish, but will liberate, and add new sense. If a wise man should appear in our village, he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth, by opening their eyes to unobserved advantages; he would establish a sense of immovable equality, calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guarantees of condition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The eye-balls were seared with a milky mucus; The madness of a dying soul... Was written on her face-- But the multitude saw why she wore the bandage."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Discipline must come through liberty.... We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificial...ly silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »