I sat up during the evening, reading by the light of the fire the scraps of newspapers in which some party had wrapped their lunch...eon.... I read these things at a vast advantage there, and it seemed to me that the advertisements, or what is called the business part of a paper, were greatly the best, the most useful, natural, and respectable. Almost all the opinions and sentiments expressed were so little considered, so shallow and flimsy, that I thought the very texture of the paper must be weaker in that part and tear the more easily. The advertisements and the prices current were more closely allied to nature, and were respectable in some measure as tide and meteorological tables are; but the reading-matter ... unless it was some humble record of science, or an extract from some old classic, struck me as strangely whimsical, and crude, and one-idea'd, like a school-boy's theme, such as youths write and after burn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Part of the portrait painter's art, we must be careful to note, is to produce a sort of synthesis, something more various, richer,... than even an astute photographer (now or yesterday) can catch by snapping a shutter in a camera. The portrait painter must be skilled in human observation, he must actually be moved by his subject as well as by his profession. True, an ambitious photographer might spend as much clock time as a painter in "studying" his subject, looking for the right shade of mood and the right chiaroscuro to articulate it. Yet this method, the photographic one, must necessarily rely too much on the subject's timed cooperation, since, materially speaking, all the photographer can record is a single moment, no matter how tactically approached and psychologically prepared that moment be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 »
In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I'll be worth a sentence or two.... That's why my place in the all-time rankin...gs means so very little to me, because I know I won't be anybody's number one, and it's that same old thing: if you're not number one, then what does it really matter?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 »
Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still "globaloney." Mr. Wallace's warp of sense... and his woof of nonsense is very tricky cloth out of which to cut the pattern of a post-war world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, on the official record you're my son. But on this post you're just another trooper. You heard me tell the recruits what I ne...ed from them. Twice that I will expect from you.... You've chosen my way of life. I hope you have the guts enough to endure it. But put outa your mind any romantic ideas that it's a way to glory. It's a life of suffering and of hardship and uncompromising devotion to your oath and your duty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »