Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature wo...rks. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried ...down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men conceive themselves as morally superior to those with whom they differ in opinion. A Socialist who thinks that the opinions of... Mr. Gladstone on Socialism are unsound and his own sound, is within his rights; but a Socialist who thinks that his opinions are virtuous and Mr. Gladstone's vicious, violates the first rule of morals and manners in a Democratic country; namely, that you must not treat your political opponent as a moral delinquent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on ea...rth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »