Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has sta...mped with its own freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The history of theater from the medieval period until the nineteenth century has been in large part a history of further and furth...er separations of the scene of dramatic action from the physical situation of the audience. Even as the subject matter--in the plays of Ibsen, Chekhov, and Strindberg--became more and more continuous with the life of the audience, the stage itself pulled in its apron, emphasized its proscenium, and became a room with an invisible fourth wall, allowing the audience to look in, while keeping it more definitely outside. The progress of film was the reverse. From the stylized and theatrical settings of the early dramas, silent films moved into greater and greater involvement with the actors. Previously the audience saw actors from a distance, with a sense of tableau and formal separation. Although they seemed to be like us, they were not: silent, hieratic, caught in frightened frenzies of comedy, tragedy, and melodrama.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it.... He dire...cts angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Generally, about all perception, we can say that a sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of thin...gs without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet ring without the iron or gold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piec...e of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a man, cautious, hides his limp,... Somebody has to limp it! Things do it; the surroundings limp. House walls get scars, the car breaks down; matter, in drudgery, takes it up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo- a...nd heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O, I am smitten with a hatchet's jaw; And that in deed and not in word alone.... chorus: I thought I heard a sound within the house Unlike the voice of one that jumps for joy. He splits my skull, not in a friendly way, Once more: he purposes to kill me deadLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[There is a] no-win decision that innumerable people make, or try to make, or try to put off making daily: Whether to give up the ...job, the place, the people, the future one holds dear, denying one's own mental capacities, independence, and desires (what are left of them, what one remembers of them) just to get away. They will find themselves disgusting if they let their tormentor get his way, not ... by touching their body ... but by forcing them to flee, to change anything they would not have changed if they were free to keep it: their white collar career or their cash register at the supermarket, it doesn't matter in the slightest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »