Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, li...ke the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is... confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pain and pleasure are infectious. It depresses us to be much with those who have suffered long and are still suffering; it refresh...es us to be with those who have suffered little and are enjoying themselves. But it is good for us to be depressed now and then.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed t...o me the centre of paralysis. I have tried to present it to the indifferent public under four of its aspects: childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life. The stories are arranged in this order. I have written it for the most part in a style of scrupulous meanness and with the conviction that he is a very bold man who dares to alter in the presentment, still more to deform, whatever he has seen and heard.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings ...about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. This breakdown in the constitutional order is the cause of the precipitate and catastrophic decline of Western society. It may, if it cannot be arrested and reversed, bring about the fall of the West.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always origin...ates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological... paralysis, more than it is about winning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »