Why do our bodies wear out? Why can't we just go on and on and on, accumulating a potentially infinite number of Frequent Flyer mi...leage points? These are the kinds of questions that philosophers have been asking ever since they realized that being a philosopher did not involve any heavy lifting. And yet the answer is really very simple. Our bodies are mechanical devices, they break down. Some devices, such as battery-operated toys costing $39.95, break down almost instantly upon exposure to the Earth's atmosphere. Other devices, such as stereo systems owned by your next-door neighbor's 13-year-old son who likes to listen to bands with names like "Nerve Damage," at a volume capable of disintegrating limestone, will continue to function perfectly for many years, even if you hit them with an ax. But the fundamental law of physics is that sooner or later every mechanism ceases to function for one reason or another, and it is never covered under the warranty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts--who merely hunted and fished for foo...d, who found shelter where they could in jungles, in trees, and caves--was a civilizing triumph.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The little lifting helplessness, the queer Whimper-whine; whose unridiculous... Lost softness softly makes a trap for us. And makes a curse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was something like love From another world that seized her... From behind, and she gave, not lifting her head Out of dew, without ever looking, her best Self to that great need.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requi...ring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did because he must; i...t was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment. But now, every thing he did, even to the lifting of his finger or the eating of bread, looks large, all-related, and is called an institution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguise...d in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the c...onditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By straightening out and lifting a forefinger, He pointed with his hand from where it lay... Like a white crumpled spider on his knee:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »