Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism... is an indispensable element of culture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "d...oing nothing."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are inf...luenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendour of those who eclipsed and preceded them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In short, let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the informations... of others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And Thee, across the harbor, silver-paced As though the sun took step of thee, yet left... Some motion ever unspent in thy stride,-- Implicitly thy freedom staying thee!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full- blown liberty, there is nothing like it in... its uncontrollable strength, just because it is the very essence of mind, and that as its very actuality. Whole continents, Africa and the East, have never had this Idea, and are without it still. The Greeks and Romans, Plato and Aristotle, even the Stoics, did not have it. On the contrary, they saw that it is only by birth or by strength of character, education, or philosophy that the human being is actually free. It was through Christianity that this Idea came into the world. According to Christianity, the individual as such has an infinite value as the object and aim of divine love, destined as mind to live in absolute relationship with God himself, and have God's mind dwelling in him: i.e. man is implicitly destined to supreme freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your most vital necessity in this life is that you shall love your wife completely and implicitly and in an entire nakedness of bo...dy and spirit.... this that I tell you is my message as far as I've got any.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world is never the same as it was.... And that's as it should be. Every generation has the obligation to make the preceding ge...neration irrelevant. It happens in little ways: no longer knowing the names of bands or even recognizing their sounds of music; no longer implicitly understanding life's rules: wearing plaid Bermuda shorts to the grocery and not giving it another thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today's journalism is obsessed with the kinds of things that tend to preoccupy thirteen-year-old boys: sports, sex, crime, and nar...cissism.... Moreover, if today's journalism has a driving principle, that principle centers on an obsession with hypocrisy. Journalism is about many things, but these days it is often about revealing that public figures are phonies. Covering Bill Clinton or Prince Charles, or Michael Jackson, reporters frame their stories by saying implicitly, "These people aren't what they say they are. Look, they lied to you." Although there is a cultural role for balloon deflators, journalism has brought this characteristic attitude of the early adolescent to the adult world and elevated it to the status of cultural religion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Doctor, I want you to make it known to your government that it can trust us implicitly, for we do not want any of your territory. ...We only want your trade.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »