The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to contruct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others... like a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to lin...k us today.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... black progress and progress for women are inextricably linked in contemporary American politics, and ... each group suffers wh...en it fails to grasp the dimensions of the other's struggle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The colored woman feels that woman's cause is one and universal; and that not till the image of God, whether in parian or ebony, i...s sacred and inviolable; not till race, color, sex and condition are seen as the accidents and not the substance of life ... [ellipsis in source] not till then is woman's lesson taught and woman's cause won--not the white woman's, nor the red woman's, but the cause of every man and every woman who has writhed silently under a mighty wrong. Woman's wrongs are thus indissolubly linked with all undefended woe, and the acquirement of her "rights" will mean the final triumph of all right over might, the supremacy of the moral force of reason, and justice, and love in the government of the nations of the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Her wrongs are ... indissolubly linked with all undefended woe, all helpless suffering, and the plenitude of her "rights" will mea...n the final triumph of all right over might, the supremacy of the moral forces of reason and justice and love in the government of the nation. God hasten the day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... religion (ought to be if it isn't) a great deal more than mere gratification of the instinct for worship linked with the strai...ght-teaching of irreproachable credos. Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development--begun now and ending never.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The barriers of conventionality have been raised so high, and so strangely cemented by long existence, that the only hope of overt...hrowing them exists in the union of numbers linked together by common opinion and effort ... the united watchword of thousands would strike at the foundation of the false system and annihilate it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even people whose lives have been made various by learning, sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of ...life, on their faith in the Invisible--nay, on the sense that their past joys and sorrows are a real experience, when they are suddenly transported to a new land, where by beings around them know nothing of their history, and share none of their ideas--where their mother earth shows another lap, and human life has other forms than those on which their souls have been nourished. Minds that have been unhinged from their old faith and love, have perhaps sought this Lethean influence of exile, in which the past becomes dreamy because its symbols have all vanished, and the present too is dreamy because it is linked with no memories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God's existence, God's ...justice, God's love. The love of God is essentially a thought experience. In the Eastern religions and in mysticism, the love of God is an intense feeling experience of oneness, inseparably linked with the expression of this love in every act of living.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »