And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index,... and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own ... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and ...time to persuade analysands to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial hum...an traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can...'t fight back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where the statue stood Of Newton with his prism and silent face,... The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I be...come a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part and particle of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »