It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty,... than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture ...therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love, love, love--all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures..., a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-aft...er, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; an...d theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now this amazed Martin, since in his opinion one could not even imagine a better century than the one in which he lived. No other ...epoch had had such brilliance, such daring, such projects. Everything that had glimmered in previous ages--the passion for exploration of unknown lands, the audacious experiments, the glorious exploits of disinterested curiosity, the scientists who went blind or were blown to bits, the heroic conspiracies, the struggle of one against many--now emerged with unprecedented force. The cool suicide of a man after his having lost millions on the stock market struck Martin's imagination as much as, for instance, the death of a Roman general falling on his sword. An automobile advertisement, brightly beckoning in a wild, picturesque gorge from an absolutely inaccessible spot on an alpine cliff thrilled him to tears. The complaisant and affectionate nature of very complicated and very simple machines, like the tractor or the linotype, for example, induced him to reflect that the good in mankind was so contagious that it infected metal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the masculine mystique is pulling boys and men out into the world to growl manly noises at one another, the only power with a... stronger pull on the male psyche is maternally induced guilt. The guilt is quite necessary for our moral development, but it is often uncomfortable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exe...rcise of judgement, sensibility, and skill. The romanticist cannot be satisfied with such a normal standard; for him art is essentially irrational--an experience beyond normality, sometimes destructive of normality, and at the very least evocative of that state of wonder which is the state of mind induced by the immediately inexplicable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I doubt that we can ever successfully impose values or attitudes or behaviors on our children--certainly not by threat, guilt, or ...punishment. But I do believe they can be induced through relationships where parents and children are growing together. Such relationships are, I believe, build on trust, example, talk, and caring.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it that... this has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »