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 »
If what you mean by the word "matter" be only the unknown support of unknown qualities, it is no matter whether there is such a th...ing or no, since it no way concerns us; and I do not see the advantage there is in disputing about what we know not what, and we know not why.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly... important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus I believe that without doing violence to the ancient doctrine of the Chinese, one can say that the Li has been brought by the... perfection of its nature to choose, from several possibilities, the most appropriate; and that by this means it has produced the Ki (Ch'i) or matter with dispositions such that all the rest has come about by natural propensities, in the same way that Monsieur Descartes claims to bring forth the present order of the world as a consequence of a small number of initially generated assumptions. Thus the Chinese, far from being blameworthy, merit praise for their ideas of things being created by their natural propensity and by a pre-established harmony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands.... Curtsied when you have and kissed The wild waves whist, Foot it featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burden bear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end;... Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For jealousy arouses a husband's fury, and he shows no restraint when he takes revenge. He will accept no compensation, and refuse...s a bribe no matter how great.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.... Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, ...and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »