... any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready to... enact the needful laws themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... it is the right and duty of every woman to employ the power of organization and agitation in order to gain those advantages wh...ich are given to the one sex and unjustly withheld from the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by ...which one is transported into the interior of an object in order to coincide with what there is unique and consequently inexpressible in it. Analysis, on the contrary, is the operation which reduces the object to elements already known.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not enough to rea...d Pickwick and memorize a monologue from Faust.... You need to work continually day and night, to read ceaselessly, to study, to exercise your will.... Each hour is precious.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus that m...akes up the mind is made, old processes and patterns have continually to be broken up in order to make it possible to perceive the new aspects and arrangements of evolving consciousness. The great enemy of intelligence is complacency.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we should swap a good library for a second-rate stump speech and not ask for boot, it would be thoroughly in tune with our hear...ts. For deep within each of us lies politics. It is our football, baseball, and tennis rolled into one. We enjoy it; we will hitch up and drive for miles in order to hear and applaud the vitriolic phrases of a candidate we have already reckoned we'll vote against.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try the truth of any ob...servation relating to the mind, the easiest method is to illustrate it by outward objects. If, for instance, a man was to sweat and labor all the days of his life to fill a chest which was already full, the absurdity of his vain endeavor would be glaring. In the same manner, when the human mind is filled and stuffed with notions brought thither by fallacious inclinations, there is no room for truth to enter: candor being banished, passions alone bear the sway.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must underst...and what we are praying for.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »