A whole village-full of sensuous emotion, scattered abroad all the year long, surged here in a focus for an hour. The forty hearts... of those waving couples were beating as they had not done since, twelve months before, they had come together in similar jollity. For the time Paganism was revived in their hearts, the pride of life was all in all, and they adored none other than themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cann...ot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fortunately for common sense, psychological research has shown that babies with more than one attachment are less distressed when ...mother leaves to go to work. They are more content and playful in the presence of other adults, meaning that they feel secure with people other than Mother.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She's in the house. She's at turn after turn.... She's behind me. She's in front of me. She's in my bed. She's on path after path, and I'm weak from want of her. O heart, there is no reality for me other than she she she she she she in the whole of the reeling world. And philosophers talk about Oneness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the com...munity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention--on a landsca...pe, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God--that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying.... The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »