... throughout the ages down to modern times, conditions of imprisonment, what with overcrowding, idleness, and all their attendan...t evils, have been such that not only the person but also to a deplorable extent the personality has been "confined or restrained." The problem of the betterment of our physical prison conditions goes hand in hand ... with the problem of re-creating and releasing personality "deep-dungeoned in self," of giving scope to the forces that tend upward, of counteracting and rendering harmless the already dominant tendencies toward evil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents...; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.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 »
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 »
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 »
A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not on...ly of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the el...ection and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To summarize the contentions of this paper then. Firstly, the phrase 'the meaning of a word' is a spurious phrase. Secondly and co...nsequently, a re-examination is needed of phrases like the two which I discuss, 'being a part of the meaning of' and 'having the same meaning.' On these matters, dogmatists require prodding: although history indeed suggests that it may sometimes be better to let sleeping dogmatists lie.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »